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Urabe Kenkō (卜部 兼好, 1283–1350), also known as Yoshida Kenkō (吉田 兼好), or simply Kenkō (兼好), was a Japanese author and Buddhist monk. His most famous work is Tsurezuregusa (Essays in Idleness), [1] one of the most studied works of medieval Japanese literature. Kenko wrote during the early Muromachi and late Kamakura periods.
Kenkō's work predominantly reveals these themes, providing his thoughts set out in short essays of work. Although his concept of impermanence is based upon his personal beliefs, these themes provide a basic concept relatable among many, making it an important classical literature resonating throughout Japanese high school curriculum today.
Yoshida Kenko (1283 – c. 1350) Yoshida Ken'ichi (1912–1977) Yoshida Hidekazu (1913–2012) Yoshida Sunao (1969 – July 15, 2004) Yoshida Takuro (born 1946) Yoshikawa Eiji (August 11, 1892 – September 7, 1962) Yoshii Isamu (October 8, 1886 – November 9, 1960) Yoshimoto Banana (born 1964) Yoshimoto Takaaki (1924–2016)
The Hōeidō edition of the Tōkaidō is Hiroshige's best known work, and the best sold ever ukiyo-e Japanese prints. [2] Coming just after Hokusai's Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji series, it established this new major theme of ukiyo-e, the landscape print, or fūkei-ga, with a special focus on "famous views".
The soroban in Yoshida Kōyū's Jinkōki, 1641 edition. Yoshida Mitsuyoshi (吉田 光由, 1598 – January 8, 1672), also known as Yoshida Kōyū, was a Japanese mathematician in the Edo period. [1] His popular and widely disseminated published work made him the most well known writer about mathematics in his lifetime. [2]
Saluting aviator on 15 sen stamp from 1942. The Japanese Empire issued its first postage stamps in April 1871. In 1896 the first persons to be depicted on a stamp were Prince Kitashirakawa Yoshihisa (1847–1895) and Prince Arisugawa Taruhito (1835–1895) in honor of their role in the First Sino-Japanese War that ended one year earlier.
Tomoko Yoshida (吉田 知子, real name Tomoko Kira 吉良 知子; Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture February 6, 1934) is a Japanese writer. She has won the Akutagawa Prize , the Izumi Kyōka Prize for Literature , the Women's Literature Prize, and the Kawabata Yasunari Literature Prize.
The bibliography of Kimitake Hiraoka, pen name Yukio Mishima, includes novels, novellas, short stories and literary essays, as well as plays that were written not only in a contemporary-style, but also in the style of classical Japanese theatre, particularly in the genres of noh and kabuki.