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In Japan, Aozora Bunko is considered similar to Project Gutenberg. [8] Most of the texts provided are Japanese literature, and some translations from English literature. The resources are searchable by category, author, or title; and there is a considerable amount of support on how to use the database in the form of detailed explanations.
Lady Nijō (後深草院二条, Go-Fukakusain no Nijō) (1258 – after 1307) was a Japanese noblewoman, poet and author. She was a concubine of Emperor Go-Fukakusa from 1271 to 1283, and later became a Buddhist nun. [1]
Because of the lengthy nature of the works, individual books were often gathered together and bound into larger volumes, which is reflected in the Japanese term for the genre (lit. "bound volume"). Gōkan , along with the rest of the kusazōshi varieties, belong to the literary genre of Edo literature known as gesaku (戯作).
The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories is a 2018 English language anthology of Japanese literature edited by American translator Jay Rubin and published by Penguin Classics. With 34 stories, the collection spans centuries of short stories from Japan ranging from the early-twentieth-century works of Ryūnosuke Akutagawa and Jun'ichirō ...
Sugawara no Michizane (菅原 道真/菅原 道眞, August 1, 845 – March 26, 903) was a scholar, poet, and politician of the Heian period of Japan. He is regarded as an excellent poet, particularly in waka and kanshi poetry, and is today revered in Shinto as the god of learning, Tenman-Tenjin ( 天満天神 , often shortened to Tenjin ) .
Gunsho Ruijū (群書類従) is a collection of old Japanese books on Japanese literature and history assembled by Hanawa Hokiichi (塙保己一) with the support of the bakufu. It has several sections separated in genres such as Shinto (the native Japanese religion) or waka poetry. A short list is below: Shinto documents; Imperial documents
This category represents Japanese texts written in the Edo period (1603-1867). It marks the end of what is known as "classical literature". It marks the end of what is known as "classical literature".
[7] [8] The first edition collected the poet's work from the years 1905-1913 and included 50 tanka sequences (rensaku), [9] with the autobiographical "My Mother is Dying" (死にたまふ母, Shinitamafuhaha) being perhaps the most celebrated sequence in the book. [10] [11] Mokichi's career as a poet spanned almost 50 years.