A History of Japanese Literature
Subtitle: The First Thousand Years (History of Japanese Literature)
Contributors: David Chibbett (Translator)
Publisher: Kodansha America
Published: April 1991
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780870114915
Subjects: Literary studies: general; Japanese Literature; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Japanese; Literary Criticism; Japan; Asian - Japanese; History and criticism
First sentence: From extant written materials, the history of Japanese literature can be traced back as far as the seventh or eighth century A.D.