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Institute of Tamil Studies.Written Texts: Japan
Editorial note: Bracketed number codes in this entry refer to the list of
ideograms that follows.
Japanese martial art literature encompasses such a wide variety of genres,
both fiction and nonfiction, produced over such a long period of history,758 Written Texts: Japan