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all. In summary, a good portion of the
Mirrors
is largely unknown out-
side of Japan, and none of the
Mirrors—
Heian or Kamakura—has been
treated in toto as the primary subject of an English-language monograph
that moves beyond translation.
An uninformed reader whose ideas of Japanese literature rested on
secondary scholarship (or translations) could easily mistake
Mirror
pro-
duction as a primarily Heian phenomenon. However, despite what the
lines drawn by mid-twentieth-century scholarship might suggest, histo-
riographic
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