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Anthology of Japanese Literature: From the Earliest Era to the Mid-Nineteenth Century

by Donald Keene; Ki no Tsurayuki; Matsuo Bashō; 松尾 芭蕉; Mukai Kyorai; 向井 去来; Chikamatsu Monzaemon; Jippensha Ikku; 十返舎 一九; Tōkaidōchū Hizakurige; 紀貫之; 東海道中膝栗毛; Bakin Takizawa; 曲亭馬琴; Murasaki Shikibu; 紫 式部; Kamo no Chōmei; 鴨 長明; Zeami; 世阿弥 元清; Saikaku Ihara; Burton Watson; G.W. Sargent; Arthur Waley; Kenneth Rexroth; Edward G. Seidensticker; A.L. Sadler; Robert H. Brower; Charles E. Hamilton; George Bailey Sansom; Ryusaku Tsunoda; Sam Houston Brock; Meredith Weatherby; Shio Sakanishi; W. Theodore De Bary; Harold Gould Henderson; Howard Hibbett; Thomas Satchell; Marjorie Sinclair; Kochi Doi; Yukuo Uyehara; Anne Shepley Omori; Richard J. Lane; F. Voss; Basil Hall Chamberlain
Publisher
Grove Press
Year
Binding
Paperback
Pages
444

Keene opens a thousand-year conversation. Poets and dramatists, court ladies and wandering monks - their voices layer together like sediment, each era adding its own music. The selections move from ancient ceremony to earthy humor, showing how literature grows and changes while staying essentially human. For readers who want to understand how a culture talks to itself across centuries.

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