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Modern Japanese Writers and the Nature of Literature. Stanford University Press, 1976. Sato, Hiroaki; Inose, Naoki (2012). Persona: A Biography of Yukio Mishima. Berkeley, California: Stone Bridge Press. ISBN 978-1-61172-008-2. "Nation and Region in the Work of Dazai Osamu," in Roy Starrs Japanese Cultural Nationalism: At Home and in the Asia ...
The Book of Tea (茶の本, Cha no Hon) A Japanese Harmony of Art, Culture, and the Simple Life (1906) [1] by Okakura Kakuzō (1906) is a long essay linking the role of chadō (teaism) to the aesthetic and cultural aspects of Japanese life and protesting Western caricatures of "the East".
A replica of a Man'yōshū poem No. 8, by Nukata no Ōkimi. The Man'yōshū (万葉集, pronounced [maɰ̃joꜜːɕɯː]; literally "Collection of Ten Thousand Leaves") [a] [1] is the oldest extant collection of Japanese waka (poetry in Old Japanese or Classical Japanese), [b] compiled sometime after AD 759 during the Nara period.
The second section, titled "The Male Domain", starts with an essay by Tom Gill discussing cultural narratives of superheroes across Japanese history. [5] Bill Kelly proposes an argument for the popularity of karaoke in Japanese culture, and Isolde Standish's chapter draws comparison between the anime film Akira (1988) and bōsōzoku culture. [6]
Outside Japan, he is chiefly renowned for The Book of Tea: A Japanese Harmony of Art, Culture, and the Simple Life (1906). [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Written in English, and in the wake of the Russo-Japanese War , it decried Western caricaturing of the Japanese, and of Asians more generally, and expressed the fear that Japan gained respect only to the extent ...
The Japanese terms for vertical (portrait) and horizontal (landscape) formats for images are tate-e (縦絵) and yoko-e (横絵), respectively. Below is a table of common Tokugawa-period print sizes. Sizes varied depending on the period, and those given are approximate they are based on the pre-printing paper sizes, and paper was often trimmed ...
The term originated in the Meiji era (1868–1912) as Japanese slang. [4] It combines elements of the terms tsunde-oku ( 積んでおく , "to pile things up ready for later and leave") , and dokusho ( 読書 , "reading books") .
The Final Years (Japanese: 晩年, Hepburn: Bannen) is a Japanese short story collection written by Osamu Dazai and was published in 1936. [1] It was Dazai's first published book, composed of fifteen previously published short stories, and was completed ten years after Dazai first decided to become a writer.