Japanese Literature
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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JAPANESE LITERATURE literary works produced in the language...500 poems, many from much earlier times. A number of the poems in this collection...the classic age, in which Japanese literature reached its first peak of development...official court communications, yet literature in the native language, the only written...autobiography, was dominant for a time, followed by naturalist and proletarian...