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The Man'yōshū is widely regarded as being a particularly unique Japanese work, though its poems and passages did not differ starkly from its contemporaneous (for Yakamochi's time) scholarly standard of Chinese literature and poetics; many entries of the Man'yōshū have a continental tone, earlier poems having Confucian or Taoist themes and ...
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Sakanoue no Korenori (坂上是則) was a Japanese waka poet of the early Heian period. [1] His exact dates of birth and death are unknown, [1] [2] but he was a fourth-generation descendant of Sakanoue no Tamuramaro. [1] He was one of the Thirty-six Immortals of Poetry [1] [2] and one of his poems was included in the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu.
Sano no Chigami no Otome (Japanese: 狭野茅上 娘子, c.700) was a Japanese poet during the Nara period, whose love poems appear in the Man’yōshū, [1] the oldest existing anthology of Japanese vernacular poetry. [2] A low-ranking palace attendant, she was also known as Sano no Otogami no Otome (狭野弟上 娘子). [1]
In a new study, researchers from the University of Nottingham looked at the brain to determine what makes yawning contagious. The BBC reports it happens in the part of the brain that controls ...
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Japanese literature throughout most of its history has been influenced by cultural contact with neighboring Asian literatures, most notably China and its literature. Early texts were often written in pure Classical Chinese or lit.
Yawning. We all do it and yet there's no set explanation on why we do it. And just as mysterious is that the act of yawning seems to be contagious. A new study looking at that issue has found that ...