{"product_id":"world-within-walls-donald-keene-9780231114677","title":"World Within Walls: Japanese Literature of the Pre-Modern Era, 1600â \"1867","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe 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\" of isolation and meticulously chronicles the period's vast literary output, providing both lay readers and scholars with the definitive history of premodern Japanese literature. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eWorld Within Walls\u003c\/i\u003e spans the age in which Japanese literature began to reach a popular audience--as opposed to the elite aristocratic readers to whom it had previously been confined. Keene comprehensively treats each of the new, popular genres that arose, including haiku, Kabuki, and the witty, urbane prose of the newly ascendant merchant class.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Donald Keene\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0231114672\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780231114677\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Columbia University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/20\/1999\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 606\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.86lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.18h x 6.13w x 1.13d","brand":"Donald Keene","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43981515751679,"sku":"9780231114677","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f828dd1f-ee8e-4dbc-a72a-aa08b37e6102.jpg?v=1683256039","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/world-within-walls-donald-keene-9780231114677","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}