An edition of World within walls: Japanese literature of the pre-modern era, 1600-1867 (1976)

World Within Walls

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An edition of World within walls: Japanese literature of the pre-modern era, 1600-1867 (1976)

World Within Walls

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"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.

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Publisher
Columbia University Press
Language
English
Pages
606

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Subjects

History and criticism, Japanese literature, Japanese literature, history and criticism, Catholic schools, Child sexual abuse, Church history, modern period, 1500-, Clergy, sexual behavior

Times

Edo period, 1600-1868

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Cover of: World Within Walls
World Within Walls
October 15, 1999, Columbia University Press
Paperback in English - New Ed edition
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Cover of: World within walls
World within walls: Japanese literature of the pre-modern era, 1600-1867
1978, Grove Press : distributed by Random House, Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
in English - 1st ed.
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Cover of: World within walls
World within walls: Jpanese literature of the pre-modern era, 1600-1867.
1978, Grove Press
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Cover of: World within walls
World within walls: Japanese literature of the pre-modern era, 1600-1867.
1978, Tuttle
in English
Cover of: World within walls
World within walls: Japanese literature of the pre-modern era, 1600-1867
1976, Secker and Warburg
in English
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Cover of: World within walls
World within walls: Japanese literature of the pre-modern era, 1600-1867
1976, Holt, Rinehart and Winston
in English - 1st ed.
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Library of Congress
PL726.35.K4 1999, PL726.35 .K4 1999

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Number of pages
606
Dimensions
9.1 x 6.1 x 1.1 inches
Weight
1.9 pounds

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL9656246M
Internet Archive
worldwithinwalls0000keen_w7k3
ISBN 10
0231114672
ISBN 13
9780231114677
LCCN
99024626
OCLC/WorldCat
41090684
Library Thing
129049
Goodreads
287716

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