Literature

"Literature" in Japanese

文学

bungaku

(body of all written works)

文学

bungaku

(the collected creative writing of a nation, people, group or culture)

文献

bunken

(body of all written works)

文献

bunken

(all the papers, treatises etc. published in academic journals on a particular subject)

資料

shiryō

(all the papers, treatises etc. published in academic journals on a particular subject)

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