Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Minamoto no Yoritomo (1147–1199) ushered in Japan's medieval period with his establishment of a military government in eastern Japan. Japan's medieval period lasted roughly 400 years, from Minamoto no Yoritomo's establishment of the Kamakura shogunate and being named shōgun in the third year of the Kenkyū era (1192) to Tokugawa Ieyasu's establishment of the Edo shogunate in Keichō 8 (1603 ...
Classical court literature, which had been the focal point of Japanese literature up until this point, gradually disappeared. [ 13 ] [ 11 ] New genres such as renga , or linked verse, and Noh theater developed among the common people, [ 14 ] and setsuwa such as the Nihon Ryoiki were created by Buddhist priests for preaching.
Marian Bloom Ury (October 5, 1932 – April 25, 1995) was an American scholar of medieval Japanese literature. She was a professor in the departments of East Asian languages and comparative literature at the University of California, Davis .
Gunki monogatari (軍記物語, Military chronicle-tale), or "war tales", is a category of Japanese literature written primarily in the Kamakura and Muromachi periods that focus on wars and conflicts, especially the civil wars that took place between 1156 and 1568.
He is a specialist in medieval Japanese literature, [1] and his particular known for his work on the history of waka of the classical and medieval periods. [1] His notable works include Shinkokin Wakashū Zenhyōshaku (新古今和歌集全評釈) and Fujiwara no Teika to Sono Jidai (藤原定家とその時代).
For the most part, scholars have been critical of this genre, dismissing it for its perceived faults when compared to the aristocratic literature of the Heian and Kamakura periods. As a result, standardized Japanese school textbooks often omit any reference to otogi-zōshi from their discussions of medieval Japanese literature. Recent studies ...
Yoshihiko Amino (Japanese: 網野 善彦, Hepburn: Amino Yoshihiko, January 22, 1928 – February 27, 2004) was a Japanese Marxist historian and public intellectual, perhaps most singularly known for his novel examination of medieval Japanese history. [1]
Closely tied to the rise of Japan's urban centers, the growing economic power of the chōnin (urban commoner) class, the improvement of literacy rates, and the advent of woodblock print technology, kanazōshi emerged as a new, distinctly plebeian form of literature. Its authors arose from the educated portion of the population, including ...