World within walls

Description:

"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,  Japanese literature,  Japanese literature, history and criticism,  Catholic schools,  Child sexual abuse,  Church history, modern period, 1500-,  Clergy, sexual behavior

Times: Edo period, 1600-1868