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In 1942, she moved to Shanghai, China, then under Japanese occupation, where she edited a Chinese literary magazine Nu-Sheng. She died of a brain hemorrhage in Shanghai in 1945, and her grave is at the temple of Tokei-ji in Kamakura. After her death, her royalties were used to establish a literary prize for women writers.
Heian literature (平安文学, Heian-bungaku) or Chūko literature (中古文学, chūko-bungaku, "mid-ancient literature") refers to Japanese literature of the Heian period, running from 794 to 1185. [1]
(The Japanese reading of this title is Tō Monzui.) The oldest reference to this book is found in an entry in Taiki ( 台記 ) (1150) in which it is referred to as "Monzui". While this shorter title can be found in several other works, it appears in Honchō Shojaku Mokuroku' ( 本朝書籍目録 ) as "Honchō Monzui" which is believed to have ...
Miyako no Yoshika (都良香; 834–879 [1] [2]) was a Japanese poet, scholar and court official active in the Heian period.He was responsible for the civil service examination of Sugawara no Michizane and later acted as one of the compilers of the Nihon Montoku Tennō Jitsuroku.
Tōshi Kaden (藤氏家伝), commonly abbreviated to Kaden, is a Japanese biographical record of the Fujiwara clan. Compiled by Fujiwara no Nakamaro and Enkei, it was completed between 760 and 766. [1] It is two volumes in length.
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.
Toshi Maruki was born on 11 February 1912 in Chippubetsu, Uryū District, Hokkaido, Japan.Her parents’ house was a temple. After graduating from Asahikawa Women’s Higher School, she moved to Tokyo and studied oil painting at the Teaching Department of the Women’s School of Fine Arts (present Joshibi University of Art and Design). [3]
Kenzaburō Ōe (大江 健三郎, Ōe Kenzaburō, 31 January 1935 – 3 March 2023) was a Japanese writer and a major figure in contemporary Japanese literature. His novels, short stories and essays, strongly influenced by French and American literature and literary theory , deal with political, social and philosophical issues, including ...