World Within Walls: Japanese Literature of the Premodern Era - 1600-1867 by Donald Keene

World Within Walls: Japanese Literature of the Premodern Era - 1600-1867

A History of Japanese Literature #2

Donald Keene

606 pages • first pub 1976 (view editions)

fiction challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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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 pe...

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