A History of Japanese Literature
Subtitle: The First Thousand Years
Publisher: Kodansha International (JPN)
Published: March 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9784770029348
Subjects: Literary studies: 16th to 18th centuries; Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; Modern period, c 1500 onwards; c 1000 CE to c 1500; c 500 CE to c 1000 CE; Literary; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Japanese; Fiction; Japan; Asian - Japanese; Literary 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.