The Columbia Anthology of Japanese Essays: Zuihitsu from the Tenth to the Twenty-First Century by

The Columbia Anthology of Japanese Essays: Zuihitsu from the Tenth to the Twenty-First Century

Modern Asian Literature

540 pages first pub 2007 (editions)

nonfiction classics literary poetry reference
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A court lady of the Heian era, an early modern philologist, a novelist of the Meiji period, and a physicist at Tokyo University. What do they have in common, besides being Japanese? They all wrote zuihitsu--a uniquely Japanese literary genre encom...

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