Dawn to the West: A History of Japanese Literature : Japanese Literature of the the Modern Era: Poetry, Drama, Criticism

Professor Donald Keene
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This is the first of a multivolume history of modern Japanese literature. Volume one is devoted to the study of fiction, and contains complete studies of all the important Japanese writers since the Meiji.

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restoration in 1868, both those widely read in the West and other lesser known writers.