A History of Japanese Literature: From the Man'yōshū to Modern TimesA 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. |
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Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The Age of the Manyoshū | 12 |
The First Turning Point | 41 |
The Age of The Tale of Genji | 57 |
The Second Turning Point | 91 |
The Secularization of | 104 |
The Third Turning Point | 128 |
The Fourth Turning Point | 211 |
The Age of Meiji | 243 |
The Age of Industrialization | 283 |
The Postwar Years | 338 |
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