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  2. The Tale of Genji - Wikipedia

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    The Tale of Genji. 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 ...

  3. List of classical Japanese texts - Wikipedia

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    Gyokuyō (1164–1200), written by Fujiwara no Kanezane. Meigetsuki (1180–1235), written by Fujiwara no Teika. Heikoki (1196–1246), written by Taira no Tsunetaka. Sanuki no Suke Nikki, written by Fujiwara no Nagako. Towazugatari (1271–1306), written by Go-Fukakusa In no Nijō. Izayoi Nikki (c. 1283), written by Abutsu-ni.

  4. Japanese literature - Wikipedia

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    Manga represented between 20 and 30 percent of annual publications at the end of the 1980s, in sales of some ¥400 billion per year. Light novels, a Japanese type of young adult novel, often feature plots and illustrations similar to those seen in manga. Many manga are fan-made (dōjinshi).

  5. Kokoro - Wikipedia

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    Kokoro. Kokoro (こゝろ, or in modern kana usage こころ) is a 1914 Japanese novel by Natsume Sōseki, and the final part of a trilogy starting with To the Spring Equinox and Beyond and followed by The Wayfarer (both 1912). [1] Set in the Meiji era, the novel tells of the acquaintance between a young man and an older man called "Sensei ...

  6. No Longer Human - Wikipedia

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    No Longer Human (Japanese: 人間失格, Hepburn: Ningen Shikkaku), also translated as A Shameful Life, is a 1948 novel by Japanese author Osamu Dazai.It tells the story of a troubled man incapable of revealing his true self to others, and who, instead, maintains a façade of hollow jocularity, later turning to a life of alcoholism and drug abuse before his final disappearance.

  7. Snow Country - Wikipedia

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    Snow Country (雪国, Yukiguni, IPA: [jɯkiꜜɡɯɲi]) is a novel by the Japanese author Yasunari Kawabata.The novel is considered a classic work of Japanese literature [1] and was among the three novels the Nobel Committee cited in 1968, when Kawabata was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

  8. In a Grove - Wikipedia

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    In a Grove (藪の中, Yabu no naka), also translated as In a Bamboo Grove, is a Japanese short story by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa first published in 1922. [1][2] It was ranked as one of the "10 best Asian novels of all time" by The Telegraph in 2014. [3] In a Grove has been adapted several times, most notably by Akira Kurosawa for his award-winning ...

  9. Murasaki Shikibu - Wikipedia

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    Murasaki Shikibu. Murasaki Shikibu (紫式部, 'Lady Murasaki'; c. 973 – c. 1014 or 1025) was a Japanese novelist, poet and lady-in-waiting at the Imperial court in the Heian period. She was best known as the author of The Tale of Genji, widely considered to be one of the world's first novels, written in Japanese between about 1000 and 1012.

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