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Hakkenden is a long, dense work told from multiple perspectives - described by translator Glynne Walley as "huge and unwieldy, almost comically so". [5] However, it can be divided into three main arcs - a prologue leading up to the Dog Warriors' birth, the stories of the individual Dogs as they encounter one another, and a final war between the Satomi and their assembled foes.
Most of the texts provided are Japanese literature, and some translations from English literature. The resources are searchable by category, author, or title; and there is a considerable amount of support on how to use the database in the form of detailed explanations. The files can be downloaded in PDF format or simply viewed in HTML format. [5]
If only a period is known, they sort by the start year of that period. Format: principal type, technique and dimensions; the column entries sort by the main type: scroll (includes handscrolls and letters), books (includes albums, ordinary bound books and books bound by fukuro-toji) [nb 3] and other (includes hanging scrolls)
Nijūichidaishū (21 imperial collections of Japanese poetry) Kokin Wakashū (c. 920) Gosen Wakashū (951) Shūi Wakashū (1005–1007) Goshūi Wakashū (1086) Kin'yō Wakashū (1124–27) Shika Wakashū (1151–54) Senzai Wakashū (1187) Shin Kokin Wakashū (1205) Shinchokusen Wakashū (1234) Shokugosen Wakashū (1251) Shokukokin Wakashū ...
The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories is a 2018 English language anthology of Japanese literature edited by American translator Jay Rubin and published by Penguin Classics. With 34 stories, the collection spans centuries of short stories from Japan ranging from the early-twentieth-century works of Ryūnosuke Akutagawa and Jun'ichirō ...
Because of the lengthy nature of the works, individual books were often gathered together and bound into larger volumes, which is reflected in the Japanese term for the genre (lit. "bound volume"). Gōkan, along with the rest of the kusazōshi varieties, belong to the literary genre of Edo literature known as gesaku (戯作).
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Imported Chinese books were copied at Japanese libraries, but unlike sutra copying little is known about the actual copying process of Chinese secular works in Japan. [50] The Japanese aristocracy and clergy sponsored the transcription of religious and government texts on a large scale by the Nara period. [51]