Japanese literature

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• Japanese literature: Bibliography - Bibliography See R. Brower and E. Miner, Japanese Court Poetry (1961); D. Keene, World within Walls ...
• Japanese literature: Western Influence - Western Influence After the dramatic opening of Japan to the West in 1858, the flood of ...
• Japanese literature: The Heian Era - The Heian Era The addition of two phonetic syllabaries (katakana and hiragana) during the Heian era ...
• Japanese literature: Postwar Literature - Postwar Literature The immense public demand for fiction in postwar Japan has been fed by the ...
• Japanese literature: Medieval Literature - Medieval Literature In the subsequent medieval period (c.1200–1600), themes and concerns ...

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