Seeds in the Heart: Japanese Literature from Earliest Times to the Late Sixteenth Century

by Donald Keene

Book Overview

Donald Keene employs his prodigious wealth of knowledge, critical insight, and narrative aplomb to guide readers through the first nine hundred years of Japanese literature -- a period that not only defined the unique properties of Japanese prosody and prose but also produced some of its greatest works. Covering courtly fiction, Buddhist writings, war tales, diaries, poems, and more, Seeds in the Heart explores a vast and variegated treasury of writings...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0805019995
• ISBN13: 9780805019995
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Henry Holt & Company
• Length: 1265 Pages
• Weight: 3.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.5" x 6.5" x 9.5"