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Her first poetry collection, Madamu Juju no ie ("The House of Madam Juju") was published in 1971. ... Japanese Literature Today, vol. 14, 1989, pp. 5-12.
Hashihime as appearing in the Kyōka Hyaku-Monogatari from 1853. Hashihime (橋姫) ("the maiden of the bridge" [1]) is a character that first appeared in Japanese Heian-period literature, represented as a woman who spends lonely nights waiting for her lover to visit, and later as a fierce “oni” or demon fueled by jealousy.
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.
In their original appearance in the prefaces of the Kokin wakashū, the six rokkasen are not actually referred to with this term. [1]There are numerous phrases that show the conceptualization of these six as a cohesive group, but the term "Rokkasen" first appeared in an early Kamakura-period commentary on Kokin wakashū, titled Sanryūshō 三流抄.
Kagerō Nikki (蜻蛉日記, The Mayfly Diary, commonly referred to as The Gossamer Years) is a work of classical Japanese literature, written around 974, that falls under the genre of nikki bungaku, or diary literature.
Towazugatari was written c. 1307 and covers events of the period from 1271 to 1306. The work is considered one of the greatest works of Japanese literature, [9] as well-being a rare account of events not typically recorded in premodern Japanese literary works, such as sexual coercion. [10]
Murasaki Shikibu (紫式部, ' Lady Murasaki '; c. 973 – c. 1014 or 1025) was a Japanese novelist, poet and lady-in-waiting at the Imperial court in the Heian period. She was best known as the author of The Tale of Genji, widely considered to be one of the world's first novels, written in Japanese
Ukiyo-zōshi (浮世草子, "books of the floating world") is the first major genre of popular Japanese fiction, written between the 1680s and 1770s in Kyoto and Osaka. [1] Ukiyo-zōshi literature developed from the broader genre of kana-zōshi , books written in the katakana vernacular for enjoyment, and was initially classified as kana-zōshi ...