{"product_id":"classical-japanese-a-grammar-9780231135245","title":"Classical Japanese: A Grammar","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eClassical Japanese: A Grammar\u003c\/i\u003e is a comprehensive, and practical guide to classical Japanese. Extensive notes and historical explanations make this volume useful as both a reference for advanced students and a textbook for beginning students. The volume, which explains how classical Japanese is related to modern Japanese, includes detailed explanations of basic grammar, including helpful, easy-to-use tables of grammatical forms; annotated excerpts from classical premodern texts. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eClassical Japanese: A Grammar - Exercise Answers and Tables\u003c\/i\u003e (ISBN: 978-0-231-13530-6) is available for purchase as a separate volume.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHaruo Shirane is Shincho Professor of Japanese Literature in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia University. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Bridge of Dreams: A Poetics of The Tale of Genji\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eTraces of Dreams: Landscape, Cultural Memory, and the Poetry of Basho\u003c\/i\u003e; and an editor of \u003ci\u003eInventing the Classics: Modernity, National Identity, and Japanese Literature\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eEarly Modern Japanese Literature: An Anthology, 1600-1900\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Columbia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51648739934482,"sku":"9780231135245","price":82.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_1ecd15e1-3f42-4ac3-a502-e9ad2b5d4922.jpg?v=1759832869","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/classical-japanese-a-grammar-9780231135245","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}