World Within Walls
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: October 15, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 606
ISBN-13: 9780231114677
Subjects: Literary studies: 16th to 18th centuries; Literary studies: 19th century; Literary Collections; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Japanese; Literary Criticism; Japan; Asian - General; Literary Criticism & Collections / Asian; Asian; Asian - Japanese; Edo period, 1600-1868; History and criticism; Japanese Literature
First sentence: The art of renga (linked verse) originated as a kind of elegant parlor game.
Description: "The Tokugawa family held the shogunate from 1603 to 1867, ruling Japan and keeping the island nation isolated from the rest of the world for more than 250 years. Donald Keene looks within the "walls" of isolation and meticulously chronicles the periods vast literary output, providing both lay readers and scholars with the definitive history of premodern Japanese literature."--BOOK JACKET.