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World Within Walls – Japanese Literature of the Pre–Modern Era, 1600–1867 Paperback - 1999
by Donald Keene
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- Title World Within Walls – Japanese Literature of the Pre–Modern Era, 1600–1867
- Author Donald Keene
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Edition Unstated
- Condition New
- Pages 606
- Language ENG
- Publisher Columbia Univ Pr, Irvington, New York, U.S.A.
- Date 1999
- Bookseller's Inventory # x-0231114672
- ISBN 9780231114677
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 17th Century
- Chronological Period: 18th Century
- Chronological Period: 19th Century
- Cultural Region: Asian - General
- Cultural Region: Asian - Japanese
- Ethnic Orientation: Asian - Japanese
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From the rear cover
"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.