World within walls

Japanese literature of the pre-modern era, 1600-1867

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World within walls

Japanese literature of the pre-modern era, 1600-1867

1st ed.
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  • 1 Currently reading

"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.

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English
Pages
606

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World Within Walls
October 15, 1999, Columbia University Press
Paperback in English - New Ed edition
Cover of: World within walls
Cover of: World within walls
Cover of: World within walls
World within walls: Japanese literature of the pre-modern era, 1600-1867
1978, Grove Press : distributed by Random House, Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
in English - 1st ed.
Cover of: World within walls
World within walls: Japanese literature of the pre-modern era, 1600-1867
1976, Holt, Rinehart and Winston
in English - 1st ed.
Cover of: World within walls
World within walls: Japanese literature of the pre-modern era, 1600-1867
1976, Secker and Warburg
in English

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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographies and index.

Published in
New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
895.6/09
Library of Congress
PL726.35 .K4

The Physical Object

Pagination
xiii, 606 p. ;
Number of pages
606

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL5198603M
Internet Archive
worldwithinwalls0000keen_b1a6
ISBN 10
0030136261
LCCN
75021484
OCLC/WorldCat
1602107
Library Thing
129049
Goodreads
1623482

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