Download or read book Dawn to the West written by and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first of a multivolume history of modern Japanese literature. Volume one is devoted to the study of fiction, and contains complete studies of all the important Japanese writers since the Meiji restoration in 1868, both those widely read in the West and other lesser known writers.