{"product_id":"world-within-walls","title":"World Within Walls","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe 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.  World Within Walls spans the age in which Japanese literature began to reach a popular audienceas opposed to the elite aristocratic readers to whom it had previously been confined. Keene comprehensively treats each of the new  popular genres that arose  including haiku  Kabuki  and the witty  urbane prose of the newly ascendant merchant class.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44987070611509,"sku":"ByrdShop_0231114672","price":28.93,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780231114677.jpg?v=1770923994","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/world-within-walls","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}