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Gnosis is a feminine Greek noun which means "knowledge" or "awareness." [10] It is often used for personal knowledge compared with intellectual knowledge (εἴδειν eídein), as with the French connaître compared with savoir, the Portuguese conhecer compared with saber, the Spanish conocer compared with saber, the Italian conoscere compared with sapere, the German kennen rather than ...
Early Modern Japanese (近世日本語, kinsei nihongo) was the stage of the Japanese language after Middle Japanese and before Modern Japanese. [1] It is a period of transition that shed many of the characteristics that Middle Japanese had retained during the language's development from Old Japanese , thus becoming intelligible to modern Japanese.
The .ibooks format is created with the free iBooks Author e-book layout software from Apple Inc. This proprietary format is based on the EPUB standard, with some differences in the CSS tags used in an ibooks format file, this making it incompatible with the EPUB specification. The End-User Licensing Agreement (EULA) included with iBooks Author ...
Seidan (written between 1716 and 1736) Tohi Mondo (1739) Shutsujo Kougo (1744) Shizen Shineido (partially published between 1751 and 1764) Kokuiko (1765) Naobinomitama (1771) Gengo (1775) Sobo Kigen (1788) Uiyamabumi (1799) Shutsujo Shogo (1811) Rangaku Kotohajime (1814) Kyukeidan (1815) Yume no Shiro (1820) Kodo Taii (1824) Tsugi (completed in ...
The classical Japanese language (文語, bungo, "literary language"), also called "old writing" (古文, kobun) and sometimes simply called "Medieval Japanese", is the literary form of the Japanese language that was the standard until the early Shōwa period (1926–1989).
Kanazōshi (仮名草子) describes a type of printed Japanese book that was produced primarily in Kyoto between 1600 and 1680. The term literally means “books written in kana” (kana being the phonetic Japanese syllabary that is simpler to read and write than kanji, or Chinese characters).
A bunkoban (文庫版, lit. 'paperback edition') edition refers to a tankōbon printed in bunko format, or a typical Japanese novel-sized volume. Bunkoban are generally A6 size (105 mm × 148 mm, 4.1 in × 5.8 in) and thicker than tankōbon and, in the case of manga, usually have a new cover designed specifically for the release.
Ukiyo-zōshi (浮世草子, "books of the floating world") is the first major genre of popular Japanese fiction, written between the 1680s and 1770s in Kyoto and Osaka. [1] Ukiyo-zōshi literature developed from the broader genre of kana-zōshi , books written in the katakana vernacular for enjoyment, and was initially classified as kana-zōshi ...