Shūichi Katō

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 paperback which concentrates on the development of Japanese literature.

From the Man'yōshū to Modern Times

A History of Japanese Literature

Robert Jay Lifton

Michael Reich

Portraits from Modern Japan

Six Lives, Six Deaths

Biographical sketches show how six writers and public figures prepared for their deaths

A History of Japanese Literature: The first thousand years

Studies the development of Japanese literature from the folktales and poetry of the Age of the Manyoshu to the dramatic works of the Muromachi period ending in 1568, emphasizing its relation to social, cultural and intellectual developments

Shūichi Katō

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