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Silence received the 1966 Tanizaki Prize for the year's best full-length literature. It has also been the subject of extensive analysis. [5] In a review published by The New Yorker, John Updike called Silence "a remarkable work, a sombre, delicate, and startlingly empathetic study of a young Portuguese missionary during the relentless persecution of the Japanese Christians in the early ...
Miyoshi's books include The Divided Self: A Perspective on the Literature of the Victorians (1969), Accomplices of Silence: The Modern Japanese Novel (1975), As We Saw Them: The First Japanese Embassy to the United States (1860) (1979), Off Center: Power and Culture Relations Between Japan and the United States (1991), and The University in ...
Shūsaku Endō (遠藤 周作, Endō Shūsaku, March 27, 1923 – September 29, 1996) [1] was a Japanese author who wrote from the perspective of a Japanese Catholic. Internationally, he is known for his 1966 historical fiction novel Silence , which was adapted into a 2016 film of the same name by director Martin Scorsese . [ 2 ]
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 ...
Haragei (腹芸, はらげい) is a Japanese concept of interpersonal communication. [1] It also appears in martial arts circles, with a somewhat different meaning; see below. Literally translated, the term means "stomach art", and it refers to an exchange of thoughts and feelings that is implied in conversation, rather than explicitly stated. [1]
a literary form in traditional Japanese literature; an extended narrative tale comparable to epic literature. Monomane The principle of artistic imitation in Noh (物真似), focusing on accurate representation of roles and actions. While sometimes contrasted with yūgen, it is considered part of a continuous spectrum of performance techniques ...
The annual Mishima Prize was established in 1998 by literary publisher Shinchōsha to recognise groundbreaking Japanese literature. On 3 July 1999, the "Yukio Mishima Literary Museum" ( 三島由紀夫文学館 , Mishima Yukio Bungaku-kan ) opened in Yamanakako , Yamanashi Prefecture .
The Kaifūsō (懐風藻, Florilegium of Cherished Airs) is the earliest extant anthology of literary Sinitic poetry written by Japanese poets.. It was compiled in 751. In the brief introduction of the poets, the unknown writer seems sympathetic to Emperor Kōbun and his regents who were overthrown in 672 by Emperor Tenmu after only eight months of rule.