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Japanese literature throughout most of its history has been influenced by cultural contact with neighboring Asian literatures, most notably China and its literature. Early texts were often written in pure Classical Chinese or lit.
A disproportionate number of government officials appointed under the Lee Myung-bak and Yoon Suk Yeol administrations have been from Gangnam. [21] [7] The region has the highest voter turnout in Seoul. [69] Voters in Gangnam are intensely concerned with protecting and increasing property values, a result of the density of high-value properties ...
The adaption of the Chinese script, introduced in Japan in the 5th or 6th century, followed by the 9th century development of a script more suitable to write in the Japanese language, is reflected in ancient and classical Japanese literature from the 7th to 13th century.
[7] In Japan, Aozora Bunko is considered similar to Project Gutenberg. [8] 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 objects in this list represent about one fourth of the 235 National Treasures in the category "writings". They are complemented by 71 Japanese book National Treasures of the List of National Treasures of Japan (writings: Japanese books) and 107 other written National Treasures of the List of National Treasures of Japan (writings: others). [4]
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).
This category represents Japanese texts written in the Edo period (1603-1867). It marks the end of what is known as "classical literature". Category:Old Japanese texts; Category:Late Old Japanese texts; Category:Early Middle Japanese texts; Category:Late Middle Japanese texts
Kakinomoto no Hitomaro (柿本 人麻呂 or 柿本 人麿; c. 653–655 – c. 707–710) was a Japanese waka poet and aristocrat of the late Asuka period.He was the most prominent of the poets included in the Man'yōshū, the oldest waka anthology, but apart from what can be gleaned from hints in the Man'yōshū, the details of his life are largely uncertain.