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(The Japanese reading of this title is Tō Monzui.) The oldest reference to this book is found in an entry in Taiki ( 台記 ) (1150) in which it is referred to as "Monzui". While this shorter title can be found in several other works, it appears in Honchō Shojaku Mokuroku' ( 本朝書籍目録 ) as "Honchō Monzui" which is believed to have ...
Tamura was born in the plebeian Asakusa district of Tokyo, [1] where her father was a rice broker.At the age of seventeen she entered the literature faculty of Nihon Joshi Daigaku Japan Women's University.
Toshi's full name is Toshika Yamanaka. She often uses the alias Ninna Hori, so much so that it feels like "a real second name" to her. Toshi feels that the alias is a weapon, protecting her from the adult world. However, by the end, Toshi resolves to never use her alias again. Toshi distrusts adults.
Most of the works of literature from the Heian period that are still well-regarded today were written predominantly in kana. Diaries had been written by men in Chinese for some time, but in the early tenth century Ki no Tsurayuki chose to write his Tosa Nikki [ 6 ] from the standpoint of a woman, in kana .
Miyako no Yoshika (都良香; 834–879 [1] [2]) was a Japanese poet, scholar and court official active in the Heian period.He was responsible for the civil service examination of Sugawara no Michizane and later acted as one of the compilers of the Nihon Montoku Tennō Jitsuroku.
Tōshi Kaden (藤氏家伝), commonly abbreviated to Kaden, is a Japanese biographical record of the Fujiwara clan. Compiled by Fujiwara no Nakamaro and Enkei, it was completed between 760 and 766. [1] It is two volumes in length.
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 ...
Yūgai Toshi (有害都市, "Poison City") is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Tetsuya Tsutsui.It was serialized in Shueisha's seinen manga magazine Jump X [] from April to October 2014, until the magazine ceased its publication, and later moved to the Tonari no Young Jump website, where it ran from February to October 2015.