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World within walls

Japanese literature of the pre-modern era, 1600-1867

by Donald Keene

1976 606 pages eng

"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 reade…

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