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Nobuko Yoshiya (吉屋 信子, Yoshiya Nobuko, 12 January 1896 – 11 July 1973) was a Japanese novelist active in Taishō and Shōwa period Japan. She was one of modern Japan's most commercially successful and prolific writers, specializing in serialized romance novels and adolescent girls' fiction, as well as being a pioneer in Japanese lesbian literature, including the Class S genre.
Ukiyo-e. Ukiyo-e[ a ] is a genre of Japanese art that flourished from the 17th through 19th centuries. Its artists produced woodblock prints and paintings of such subjects as female beauties; kabuki actors and sumo wrestlers; scenes from history and folk tales; travel scenes and landscapes; flora and fauna; and erotica.
t. e. Geisha (芸者) (/ ˈɡeɪʃə /; Japanese: [ɡeːɕa]), [ 1 ][ 2 ] also known as geiko (芸子) (in Kyoto and Kanazawa) or geigi (芸妓), are female Japanese performing artists and entertainers trained in traditional Japanese performing arts styles, such as dance, music and singing, as well as being proficient conversationalists and hosts.
895.63 M93. The Tale of Genji (源氏物語, Genji monogatari, pronounced [ɡeɲdʑi monoɡaꜜtaɾi]), also known as Genji Monogatari, is a classic work of Japanese literature written by the noblewoman, poet, and lady-in-waiting Murasaki Shikibu around the peak of the Heian period, in the early 11th century. The original manuscript no longer ...
1926. Published in English. 1955 (abridged) The Dancing Girl of Izu or The Izu Dancer (伊豆の踊子, Izu no odoriko) is a short story [1][2][3] (or, accounting for its length, a novella) [4][5][6] by Japanese writer and Nobel Prize winner Yasunari Kawabata first published in 1926. [7]
The Setting Sun (斜陽, Shayō) is a Japanese novel by Osamu Dazai first published in 1947. [1][2][3] The story centers on an aristocratic family in decline and crisis during the early years after World War II.
ISBN. 9780226014876. Nightwork: Sexuality, Pleasure, and Corporate Masculinity in a Tokyo Hostess Club (1994) [1] is a book-length study in the field of cultural anthropology of Japan by Anne Allison. This participant-observation ethnography describes the culture surrounding Japanese hostess clubs, which feature female servers specifically ...
These, like the hours of the day, are depicted with wings, and in the attitude of flying; they differ from each other only in the colour of their drapery, and in their various attributes. First hour Her robe is of the hue of the horizon during twilight; she bears in her hands the planet Jupiter and a bat.