A History of Japanese Literature
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: September 29, 1983
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780333362679
Subjects: Literary studies: general; Japan; Japanese
First sentence: The literature of Japan has several distinctive features, related to the role of literature in Japanese culture as a whole; the pattern of its historical development; the writing system; the social background; and the underlying Japanese world-view of life, death, religion and philosophy.