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A History of Japanese Literature, Volume 3: The High Middle Ages
By (Author) Jin'ichi Konishi
Edited by Earl Miner
Translated by Aileen Gatten
Translated by Nicholas Teele
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
23rd September 2014
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
895.609
Paperback
678
Width 152mm, Height 229mm
936g
In this third of five volumes tracing the history of Japanese literature through Mishima Yukio, Jin'ichi Konishi portrays the high medieval period. Here he continues to examine the influence of Chinese literature on Japanese writers, addressing in particular reactions to Sung ideas, Zen Buddhism, and the ideal of literary vocation, michi. This volu