The Cambridge History of Japanese Literature provides, for the first time, a history of Japanese literature with comprehensive coverage of the premodern and mod

This volume provides the most comprehensive treatment in Western literature of the Heian period, the Japanese imperial court's golden age.

This 1899 work is a thorough and accessible survey of Japanese literature from its origins to the nineteenth century.

A new simplified edition translated by Don Sanderson. The original three-volume work, first published in 1979, has been revised specially as a single volume pap