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The English Wikipedia is an English-language encyclopedia. If an English loan word or place name of Japanese origin exists, it should be used in its most common English form in the body of an article, even if it is pronounced or spelled differently from the properly romanized Japanese; that is, use Mount Fuji, Tokyo, jujutsu, and shogi, instead of Fuji-san, Tōkyō, jūjutsu, and shōgi.
Minamoto no Yoritomo (1147–1199) ushered in Japan's medieval period with his establishment of a military government in eastern Japan. Japan's medieval period lasted roughly 400 years, from Minamoto no Yoritomo's establishment of the Kamakura shogunate and being named shōgun in the third year of the Kenkyū era (1192) to Tokugawa Ieyasu's establishment of the Edo shogunate in Keichō 8 (1603 ...
Classical court literature, which had been the focal point of Japanese literature up until this point, gradually disappeared. [ 13 ] [ 11 ] New genres such as renga , or linked verse, and Noh theater developed among the common people, [ 14 ] and setsuwa such as the Nihon Ryoiki were created by Buddhist priests for preaching.
The word honchō means Japan and is used in opposition to China. When prefixed before a title, it expresses that something is a Japanese version based on a Chinese original. Honchō Monzui is modeled after Yáo Xuàn's (姚鉉) Táng Wén Cuì (唐文粋). (The Japanese reading of this title is Tō Monzui.)
Classical Japanese began to be written during the Heian period, at which point it was very similar to spoken Japanese. It became the written standard for the Japanese language for many centuries, though the spoken language continued to evolve and by the Edo period was substantially different from classical Japanese. [2]
Rekishi monogatari (歴史物語) is a category of Japanese literature defined as extended prose narrative. Structurally, the name is composed of the Japanese words rekishi (歴史), meaning history, and monogatari (物語), meaning tale or narrative. Because of this it is commonly translated as ‘historical tale’.
For the most part, scholars have been critical of this genre, dismissing it for its perceived faults when compared to the aristocratic literature of the Heian and Kamakura periods. As a result, standardized Japanese school textbooks often omit any reference to otogi-zōshi from their discussions of medieval Japanese literature. Recent studies ...
Sumiyoshi Monogatari (early Kamakura period) Takamura Monogatari (late Heian to early Kamakura period) Uji Shūi Monogatari (early Kamakura period, early 13th century) Ima Monogatari (mid Kamakura period, after 1239) Towazugatari (late Kamakura period) Iwashimizu Monogatari (Kamakura period) Koke no Koromo (Kamakura period) Senjoshū (Kamakura ...