The Floating World in Japanese Fiction
Edition: 2 edition
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
Published: April 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780804834643
Subjects: Novels, other prose & writers; Literature - Classics / Criticism; History and criticism; Literary Criticism; Japanese; Literature: Classics; Asian - General; Edo period, 1600-1868; Asian - Japanese; Japanese fiction
First sentence: JAPANESE fiction of the Genroku Era (that is, of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries) has an impressive ancestry which can be traced back to the Heian Court.