Anthology of Japanese Literature: To the Nineteenth Century by 向井 去来, Mukai Kyorai, Ihara Saikaku, Chikamatsu Monzaemon, 紀貫之, Bakin Takizawa, 曲亭馬琴, Tōkaidōchū Hizakurige, 東海道中膝栗毛, Donald Keene, Jippensha Ikku, Murasaki Shikibu, 松尾 芭蕉, Matsuo Bashō, 鴨 長明, Zeami, 紫 式部, Kamo no Chōmei, Ki no Tsurayuki, 十返舎 一九, 世阿弥 元清

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The sweep of Japanese literature in all its great variety was made available to Western readers for the first time in this anthology. Every genre and style, from the celebrated No plays to the poetry and novels of the seventeenth century, find a p...

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