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Ariwara no Narihira (在原 業平, 825 – 9 July 880) was a Japanese courtier and waka poet of the early Heian period.He was named one of both the Six Poetic Geniuses and the Thirty-Six Poetic Geniuses, and one of his poems was included in the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu collection.
The death poem is a genre of poetry that developed in the literary traditions of the Sinosphere—most prominently in Japan as well as certain periods of Chinese history, Joseon Korea, and Vietnam. They tend to offer a reflection on death—both in general and concerning the imminent death of the author—that is often coupled with a meaningful ...
The nine stages of decay have featured as the subject of several Chinese and Japanese poems. [1]: 24 In Japan there are two main poems, attributed to Kuukai (774 – 835), founder of Shingon Buddhism, [14] and Su Tongpo (1037 – 1101), a Song dynasty politician. [1]: 24 The Su Tongpo poem links the impermanence of the human form to changing ...
Akashi Gidayu writing his death poem before committing Seppuku Akashi Gidayu was a retainer to Akechi Mitsuhide, who followed him in death, but not before writing his death poem. 84 Cloth-beating moon (Kinuta no tsuki) A scene from the Noh play Kinuta. It depicts the sadness of a wife who protects her husband's house while he is away. 85
He would later return to Japan to earn his doctorate. Hoffmann did not begin writing fiction until in his forties, and though chronologically a member of the sixties "Generation of the State," his work is oft-described as being on the forefront of avant-garde Hebrew literature, with an influence of his Japanese studies discernible in his works. [3]
In commemoration of the 300th anniversary of Kikaku's death, Nobuyuki Yuasa led an international bilingual (Japanese and English) renku, or collaborative linked poem, which opened with the following hokku by Kikaku: [4] 鐘ひとつ賣れぬ日はなし江戸の春 Springtime in Edo, Not a day passes without A temple bell sold.
He later traveled to Kegon Falls in Nikko, a famed scenic area, and wrote his farewell poem directly on the trunk of a tree before committing suicide. [1] His grave is at Aoyama Cemetery in Tokyo. The story was soon sensationalized in contemporary newspapers, and was commented upon by the famed writer Natsume Sōseki , an English teacher at ...
Okada Izō (岡田 以蔵, February 14, 1838 – May 11, 1865) was a Japanese samurai of the late Edo period, feared as one of the four most notable assassins of the Bakumatsu period. He was a member of Tosa Kinnoto [ ja ] (Tosa Imperialism party, a loyalist clique of Tosa) in his hometown, Tosa Domain.