Early Modern Japanese Literature
Subtitle: An Anthology, 1600-1900 (Translations from the Asian Classics)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: August 11, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 1027
ISBN-13: 9780231109918
Subjects: Collections & anthologies of various literary forms; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; ASIA; Asian; Literary Criticism & Collections / Asian; Asia - General; Asian - General
First sentence: One of the most dramatic transformations in Japanese history was the transition from the medieval period (thirteenth to sixteenth century) to the early modern era (1600-1867), when literary and cultural paradigms gave birth to a whole new body of vernacular literature.