Traditional Japanese Literature: An Anthology, Beginnings to 1600 edited by Haruo Shirane [in Bloomsbury Review]
01 Sep, by in Adult Readers, Fiction, Japanese, Poetry, Repost, Short Stories, Translation
This is a heavy tome, but it’s one of those impressive, erudite, must-have titles for anyone interested in Asian literature or literature in general. The Japanese were writing novels centuries before Don Quixote even chased his...