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

Anthology of Japanese Literature: From the Earliest Era to the Mid-Nineteenth Century
Donald Keene with Kochi Doi, Richard J. Lane, Ihara Saikaku, Kamo no Chōmei, Meredith Weatherby, 鴨長明, Thomas Satchell, George Bailey Sansom, Murasaki Shikibu, Bakin Takizawa, Sam Houston Brock, 松尾芭蕉, Kenneth Rexroth, 東海道中膝栗毛, Yukuo Uyehara, A.L. Sadler, William Theodore de Bary, Charles E. Hamilton, 十返舎一九, Matsuo Bashō, Jippensha Ikku, Shio Sakanishi, Robert H. Brower, Marjorie Sinclair, Ryusaku Tsunoda, Harold Gould Henderson, Mukai Kyorai, 世阿弥元清, 曲亭馬琴, Burton Watson, Basil Hall Chamberlain, 向井去来, Edward G. Seidensticker, Zeami, Anne Shepley Omori, Ki no Tsurayuki, Arthur Waley, F. Voss, Chikamatsu Monzaemon, Howard Hibbett, 紫式部, Tōkaidōchū Hizakurige, 紀貫之, G.W. Sargent

444 pages • first pub 1955 (editions)

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The sweep of Japanese literature in all its great variety was made available to Western readers for the first time in this anthology. Every genre and style, from the celebrated No plays to the poetry and novels of the seventeenth century, find a p...