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  2. Gnosis - Wikipedia

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    Gnosis is a feminine Greek noun which means "knowledge" or "awareness." [10] It is often used for personal knowledge compared with intellectual knowledge (εἴδειν eídein), as with the French connaître compared with savoir, the Portuguese conhecer compared with saber, the Spanish conocer compared with saber, the Italian conoscere compared with sapere, the German kennen rather than ...

  3. In Praise of Shadows - Wikipedia

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    In Praise of Shadows (陰翳礼讃, In'ei Raisan) is a 1933 essay on Japanese aesthetics by the Japanese author Jun'ichirō Tanizaki. It was translated into English, in 1977, by the academic students of Japanese literature Thomas J. Harper and Edward Seidensticker. A new translation by Gregory Starr was published in 2017.

  4. Man'yōshū - Wikipedia

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    It is dated between 750 and 780, and its size is 23.4 by 2.4 by 1.2 cm (9.21 by 0.94 by 0.47 in). Inspection with an infrared camera revealed other characters, suggesting that the mokkan was used for writing practice. Another mokkan, excavated in 1997 from the Miyamachi archaeological site in Kōka, Shiga, contains poem 3807 in volume 16. It is ...

  5. List of classical Japanese texts - Wikipedia

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    Brownlee, John S. (1997) Japanese historians and the national myths, 1600-1945: The Age of the Gods and Emperor Jimmu. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press. ISBN 0-7748-0644-3 Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press. ISBN 4-13-027031-1; Brownlee, John S. (1991).

  6. Classical Japanese - Wikipedia

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    By 1908, novels no longer used classical Japanese, and by the 1920s the same was true of all newspapers. [4] Government documents remained in classical Japanese until 1946. [5] Classical Japanese continues to be taught in Japanese high schools and universities due to its importance in the study of traditional Japanese literature. [2]

  7. Shin Kokin Wakashū - Wikipedia

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    The Shin Kokin Wakashū (新古今和歌集, "New Collection of Poems Ancient and Modern"), also known in abbreviated form as the Shin Kokinshū (新古今集) or even conversationally as the Shin Kokin, is the eighth imperial anthology of waka poetry compiled by the Japanese court, beginning with the Kokin Wakashū circa 905 and ending with the Shinshokukokin Wakashū circa 1439.

  8. Eastern Old Japanese - Wikipedia

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    The Eastern Old Japanese Corpus and Dictionary. Leiden, Pays-Bas: Brill. ISBN 978-9-004-47166-5. ISSN 0921-5239. Frellesvig, Bjarke (2010). A History of the Japanese Language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-139-48880-8. Kupchik, John E. (2011). A grammar of the Eastern Old Japanese dialects (PDF) (PhD thesis). Hawaii ...

  9. Oku no Hosomichi - Wikipedia

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    Oku no Hosomichi (奥の細道, originally おくのほそ道), translated as The Narrow Road to the Deep North and The Narrow Road to the Interior, is a major work of haibun by the Japanese poet Matsuo Bashō, considered one of the major texts of Japanese literature of the Edo period. [1]