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Donald Keene
World within walls

History and criticismChild sexual abuse

World within walls

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First published: 1976
Language: English
Editions: 6

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"The 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 periods vast literary output, providing both lay readers and scholars with the definitive history of premodern Japanese literature."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects: History and criticism
Child sexual abuse
Catholic schools
Clergy, sexual behavior
Time: Edo period, 1600-1868

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