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Nov 24, 2018 · Sentaro Tsujii is a young (ish) man who runs a stall called Doraharu that sells dorayaki, pancakes filled with sweet paste made from adzuki beans. Although Doraharu is owned by his former boss’s widow, Sentaro works by himself all day every single day of the year.
- Beginnings
- The Heian Period: 794 - 1185
- The Kamakura-Muromachi Period: 1185 - 1600
- The Edo Period: 1600 - 1868
- The Meiji Period: 1868 - 1945
- The Postwar Period: 1945 - Present
Japanese literature traces its beginnings to oral traditions that were first recorded in written form in the early eighth century after a writing system was introduced from China. The Kojiki (Record of Ancient Matters) and Nihon shoki (Chronicle of Japan) were completed in 712 and 720, respectively, as government projects. The former is an antholog...
Dring the Heian Period, the Japanese were fascinated with Chinese culture. The Imperial Court emulated Chinese fashion and customs while they pursued the arts. A noble was expected to be well-versed in literature, poetry, painting, dancing, calligraphy, and more. Noble men used the Chinese language in the same way that Medieval European nobles and ...
In the latter half of the twelfth century warriors of the Taira clan (Heike) seized political power at the imperial court, virtually forming a new aristocracy. Heike Monogatari (The Tale of the Heike),which depicts the rise and fall of the Taira with the spotlight on their wars with the Minamoto clan (Genji), was completed in the first half of the ...
Around this time the function of literature as a means of social intercourse broadened. Composing Renga (successive linked verses by several people forming a long poem) became a favorite pastime, and this gave birth to Haikai (a sort of comedic Renga) in the sixteenth century. It was the renowned seventeenth century poet Matsuo Basho who perfected ...
The Meiji period marks the re-opening of Japan to the West, and a period of rapid industrialization. The introduction of European literature brought free verse into the poetic repertoire; it became widely used for longer works embodying new intellectual themes. Young Japanese prose writers and dramatists struggled with a whole galaxy of new ideas a...
World War II, and Japan's defeat, deeply influenced Japanese literature. Many authors wrote stories of disaffection, loss of purpose, and the coping with defeat. Osamu Dazai's novel The Setting Sun tells of a soldier returning from Manchukuo. Shohei Ooka won the Yomiuri Prize for his novel Fires on the Plainabout a Japanese deserter going mad in th...
Jan 5, 2016 · Summary. This chapter focuses on five major diaries or nikies of the Heian period: Tosa Diary, Kagero Diary, Izumi shikibu Diary, Murasaki shikibu Diary, and Sarashina Diary. The Tosa Diary chronicles a fifty-five-day journey taken by the author Ki no Tsurayuki, his family and entourage back to the capital in 934 after his period of service as ...
- Sonja Arntzen
- 2015
The Cambridge History of Japanese Literature provides, for the first time, a history of Japanese literature with comprehensive coverage of the premodern and modern eras in a single volume.
May 25, 2023 · The art of narrative blossomed in the eleventh century with one of the world’s great literary masterpieces, Murasaki Shikibu’s The Tale of Genji and later in the work of the great modern novelists Natsume Sôseki, Tanizaki Jun’ichirô, Kawabata Yasunari, Kôbo Abe, and Ôe Kenzaburô.
Jun 15, 2020 · The story contains what is possibly the most detailed account of the samurai rite of seppuku in all of Japanese literature. Almost everything spoken or written by Mishima fits into a personal cosmology that evolved and was refined throughout his life; the living out of this system led to his death: Beauty leads to ecstasy, ecstasy to death.
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Japanese literature, the body of written works produced by Japanese authors in Japanese or, in its earliest beginnings, at a time when Japan had no written language, in the Chinese classical language.
