Download or read book Rituals of Self-revelation written by Irmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit and published by Harvard Univ Asia Center. This book was released on 1996 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thorough and insightful study of the Japanese version of the I-novel provides a means of researching and interpreting the whole tradition of this genre, linking it to the forms of autobiographical fiction as well as to the cultural assumptions and ways of thinking of the classical period of Japanese history.