Product Description: A new simplified edition translated by Don Sanderson. The original three-volume work, first published in 1979, has been revised specially as a single volume paperback which concentrates on the development of Japanese literature.

Studies the development of Japanese literature from the folktales and poetry of the Age of the Manyoshu to the dramatic works of the Muromachi period ending in 1568, emphasizing its relation to social, cultural and intellectual developments

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Product Description: This critically acclaimed autobiography was an instant bestseller in Japan, where it has gone through more than forty printings since its first publication. Cultural critic, literary historian, novelist, poet, and physician, Kato Shuichi reconstructs his dramatic spiritual and intellectual journey from the militarist era of prewar Japan to the dynamic postwar landscapes of Japan and Europe...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This volume covers the Meiji Restoration in 1868 to the present, evaluating works by Kawabata, Mishima, Oe, Tanizaki and Soseki, and the effects of westernization on Japanese literature.

Product Description: This volume covers the 17th through mid-19th centuries and the development of new gneres including Haiku, Bunraku, Kabuki, the popular novel, and Senryu.