Classical Japanese: A Grammar

Haruo Shirane

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July, 2005
Cloth, 296 pages, none
ISBN: 978-0-231-13524-5
$55.00 / £38.00

"This comprehensive guide... includes in-depth explanations, exercises and literary excerpts useful to beginners as well as advanced speakers." — Columbia College Today

"A significant contribution to the field of premodern Japanese language and literary studies." — Stephen D. Miller, Monumenta Nipponica

Related Subjects

• Asian Language and Linguistics
• Reference

About the Author

Haruo Shirane is Shincho Professor of Japanese Literature in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia University. He is the author of The Bridge of Dreams: A Poetics of The Tale of Genji and Traces of Dreams: Landscape, Cultural Memory, and the Poetry of Basho; and an editor of Inventing the Classics: Modernity, National Identity, and Japanese Literature and Early Modern Japanese Literature: An Anthology, 1600–1900.

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