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. |
What people are saying - Write a review
We haven't found any reviews in the usual places.
Contents
The Age of the Manyoshu | 12 |
The First Turning Point | 41 |
The Age of The Tale of Genji | 57 |
The Second Turning Point | 91 |
The Age of No and Kyogen | 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 |
Glossary | 353 |
| 362 | |
| 374 | |
Common terms and phrases
aesthetic aristocratic attitude bakufu ballads Basho Buddhist bunjin characters Chikamatsu China Chinese choka chonin collection Confucian courtesan criticism death described descriptions developed Diary eighteenth century elegies emotional emperor everyday example expression feelings fiction Fujiwara haikai haiku Hakucho Heian court Heian period hero House of Taira human imperial influence intellectual Japan Japanese culture Japanese literature Jocho joruri kabuki Kafu Kamakura Kojiki Kokinshu kyogen kyoka Kyoto Lady language later literary live lord love poems Love-suicide lyric Man'yoshu Meiji Mokichi Mokutaro monks monogatari Murasaki Muromachi period Nara nature Nihon shoki novel novelist Ogai peasants plays pleasure quarters poet poetry political popular priest prose relationship renga Saikaku Saito Mokichi samurai sarugaku scenes sexual social society songs Soseki stories style Tale of Genji tanka thought Tokugawa period Tokyo tradition Tsurayuki values verse waka warrior western wife woman women world-view writing written wrote
Bibliographic information
| Title | A History of Japanese Literature: From the Man'yōshū to Modern Times Classic paperbacks |
| Author | Shūichi Katō |
| Editor | Don Sanderson |
| Translated by | Don Sanderson |
| Edition | abridged, revised |
| Publisher | Psychology Press, 1997 |
| ISBN | 1873410484, 9781873410486 |
| Length | 400 pages |
| Subjects | › › Literary Collections / Asian / General Literary Criticism / Asian / Japanese |
| Export Citation | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |