Eras
Trace literature through the ages.
Ancient~500
Greco-Roman classics and Eastern epics
Medieval500~1500
Chivalric tales and religious imagination
Renaissance1500~1700
The age that rediscovered humanity
Enlightenment1700~1800
The pursuit of reason and order
Romanticism1800~1850
Emotion, nature, and the inner self
Victorian1850~1900
The golden age of industry and the novel
Modern1900~
Experiment and deconstruction since the 20th century
Japanese Classic~1600
The world of waka and monogatari
Japanese Modern1600~
Literature since the Meiji era