Seeds in the Heart

Donald Keene is Shincho Professor of Japanese Literature and University Professor Emeritus at Columbia University. He is the author of a multivolume history of Japanese literature, of which Seeds in the Heart is the first part, and at least thirty other books, including many translations from Japanese literature. He has received numerous honors in both the United States and Japan, and is a member of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters.

• The Middle Ages Introduction 16. Tales of Warfare 17. The Age of the Shin Kokinshu 18. Waka Poetry of the Kamakura and Muromachi Periods 19. Buddhist Writing of the Kamakura Period 20. Courtly Fiction of the Kamakura Period 21. Diaries of the Kamakura Period 22. Essays in Idleness 23. Medieval War Tales 24. Renga 25. Diaries and Other Prose of the Muromachi Period 26. No and Kyogen as Literature 27. Literature of the Five Mountains 28. Muromachi Fiction: Otogi-Zoshi 29. The Late Sixteenth Century Glossary Selected List of Translations into English Index