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  2. The Tale of Genji - Wikipedia

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    The Tale of Genji. The Tale of Genji (源氏物語, Genji monogatari, pronounced [ɡeɲdʑi monoɡaꜜtaɾi]), also known as Genji Monogatari, is a classic work of Japanese literature written by the noblewoman, poet, and lady-in-waiting Murasaki Shikibu around the peak of the Heian period, in the early 11th century. The original manuscript no ...

  3. List of classical Japanese texts - Wikipedia

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    Gyokuyō (1164–1200), written by Fujiwara no Kanezane. Meigetsuki (1180–1235), written by Fujiwara no Teika. Heikoki (1196–1246), written by Taira no Tsunetaka. Sanuki no Suke Nikki, written by Fujiwara no Nagako. Towazugatari (1271–1306), written by Go-Fukakusa In no Nijō. Izayoi Nikki (c. 1283), written by Abutsu-ni.

  4. Kokoro - Wikipedia

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    Kokoro. Kokoro (こゝろ, or in modern kana usage こころ) is a 1914 Japanese novel by Natsume Sōseki, and the final part of a trilogy starting with To the Spring Equinox and Beyond and followed by The Wayfarer (both 1912). [1] Set in the Meiji era, the novel tells of the acquaintance between a young man and an older man called "Sensei ...

  5. Snow Country - Wikipedia

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    Snow Country (雪国, Yukiguni, IPA: [jɯkiꜜɡɯɲi]) is a novel by the Japanese author Yasunari Kawabata.The novel is considered a classic work of Japanese literature [1] and was among the three novels the Nobel Committee cited in 1968, when Kawabata was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

  6. Shōgun (novel) - Wikipedia

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    Shōgun. James Clavell’s Shōgun (1975) is a historical novel chronicling the end of Japan’s Azuchi-Momoyama period (1568-1600) and the dawn of the Edo period (1603-1868). Loosely based on actual events and figures Shōgun narrates how European interests and internal conflicts within Japan brought about the Shogunate restoration.

  7. Japanese literature - Wikipedia

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    Manga represented between 20 and 30 percent of annual publications at the end of the 1980s, in sales of some ¥400 billion per year. Light novels, a Japanese type of young adult novel, often feature plots and illustrations similar to those seen in manga. Many manga are fan-made (dōjinshi).

  8. In a Grove - Wikipedia

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    In a Grove. In a Grove (藪の中, Yabu no naka), also translated as In a Bamboo Grove, is a Japanese short story by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa first published in 1922. [1][2] It was ranked as one of the "10 best Asian novels of all time" by The Telegraph in 2014. [3] In a Grove has been adapted several times, most notably by Akira Kurosawa for his ...

  9. Silence (Endō novel) - Wikipedia

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    Silence. (Endō novel) Silence (Japanese: 沈黙, Hepburn: Chinmoku) is a 1966 novel of theological and historical fiction by Japanese author Shūsaku Endō. It tells the story of a Jesuit missionary sent to 17th-century Japan, who endures persecution in the time of Kakure Kirishitan ("Hidden Christians") that followed the defeat of the ...

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