Japanese Books & Literature

Both in quantity and quality, Japanese Literature ranks as one of the major literatures of the world, comparable in age, richness, and volume to English Literature. In the West, we are inclined to think of History as something like a bare recitation of facts but, in Japan, History is closer to Literature than fact- taking on mythological, poetic and spiritual dimensions. The best way to understand Japanese Books and Literature is to chronologically decipher them.