World Within Walls: Japanese Literature of the Pre-Modern Era, 1600-1867

By Donald Keene

Book Overview

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"... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0394170741
• ISBN13: 9780394170749
• Release Date: January 1978
• Publisher: Random House (NY)
• Length: 606 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.