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222 relations: A Personal Matter, Agency for Cultural Affairs, Akazome Emon, Akiyuki Nosaka, Ango Sakaguchi, Aozora Bunko, Ashihei Hino, Ayako Miura, Ayako Sono, Ōtomo no Yakamochi, Banana Yoshimoto, Botchan, Buddhism, Buddhism in Japan, Cell phone novel, Cf., Chōnin, Chikamatsu Monzaemon, China, Chinese literature, Chiyo Uno, Classical Chinese, Dejima, Denji Kuroshima, Donald Keene, Doppo Kunikida, Edo, Edo meisho zue, Edo period, Edogawa Ranpo, Eiji Yoshikawa, Fires on the Plain (novel), Flying saucer, Fukuda Chiyo-ni, Fukuzawa Yukichi, Fumiko Enchi, Fumiko Hayashi (author), Futabatei Shimei, Haikai, Haiku, Hakushū Kitahara, Haruki Murakami, Haruo Umezaki, Hōjōki, Heian period, Hideo Oguma, Hime, Hiraga Gennai, Hisashi Inoue, Hokku, ..., Hokuetsu Seppu, Hokusai, Human geography, Hyakken Uchida, I Am a Cat, I Novel, Ichiyō Higuchi, Ihara Saikaku, Indian literature, Ineko Sata, Iroha, Itō Sachio, Izumi Shikibu, Japan Foundation, Japan–Netherlands relations, Japanese detective fiction, Japanese mobile phone culture, Japanese poetry, Japanese science fiction, Japanese yen, Jōruri (music), Jippensha Ikku, Jun Ishikawa, Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, Kabuki, Kafū Nagai, Kagoshima, Kaitai Shinsho, Kakinomoto no Hitomaro, Kakure Kirishitan, Kamo no Chōmei, Kan Kikuchi, Kana, Kanji, Kansei, Kansuke Naka, Katai Tayama, Kōbō Abe, Kōda Rohan, Kōenji, Kōtarō Takamura, Kenji Miyazawa, Kenji Nakagami, Kenzaburō Ōe, Kibyōshi, Kitchen (novel), Kobayashi Issa, Koizora, Kojiki, Kokin Wakashū, Kokoro, Konjaku Monogatarishū, Kyōka Izumi, Kyushu, Lafcadio Hearn, Light novel, List of Japanese classical texts, List of Japanese writers, Man'yōgana, Man'yōshū, Manchukuo, Manga, Mark Twain, Masaoka Shiki, Masuji Ibuse, Matsuo Bashō, Meiji period, Michiko Yamamoto, Minamoto clan, Mitsuharu Kaneko, Miyamoto Musashi, Mori Ōgai, Motojirō Kajii, Motoori Norinaga, Murasaki Shikibu, Myōjō, Nakane Kōtei, Nansō Satomi Hakkenden, Naoki Prize, Naoya Shiga, Nara period, Natsume Sōseki, Natsuo Kirino, Naturalism (literature), Nihilism, Nihon Shoki, Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobuo Kojima, Noh, Norwegian Wood (novel), Oku no Hosomichi, Ono no Komachi, Osamu Dazai, Ozaki Kōyō, Polymath, Rangaku, Realism (arts), Renga, Romanticism, Ryōtarō Shiba, Ryū Murakami, Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Sakae Tsuboi, Sakoku, Sakunosuke Oda, Sakurajima, Saneatsu Mushanokōji, Santō Kyōden, Sawako Ariyoshi, Science fiction, Sei Shōnagon, Seppuku, Setsuwa, Shōhei Ōoka, Shūsaku Endō, Shigeji Tsuboi, Shin Kokin Wakashū, Sugawara no Michizane, Sugita Genpaku, Syllabary, Taira clan, Takeo Arishima, Takiji Kobayashi, Takizawa Bakin, Takuboku Ishikawa, Tamiki Hara, Tanka, Tatsuzō Ishikawa, Tōkaidōchū Hizakurige, Tōson Shimazaki, The Book of Five Rings, The Pillow Book, The Setting Sun, The Tale of Genji, The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter, The Tale of the Heike, The Wild Geese (Mori novel), The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, The Woman in the Dunes, Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji, Three Kingdoms, Tokugawa shogunate, Tokyo, Toyoko Yamasaki, Travel literature, Tsubouchi Shōyō, Tsurezuregusa, Ueda Akinari, Ukiyo-e, Ukiyo-zōshi, Unno Juza, Urashima Tarō, Water Margin, Western literature, Western world, William Shakespeare, Woodblock printing in Japan, World War II, Yaeko Nogami, Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Yasunari Kawabata, Yasushi Inoue, Yokoi Yayū, Yomihon, Yomiuri Prize, Yone Noguchi, Yosa Buson, Yosano Akiko, Yoshida Kenkō, Yoshikichi Furui, Yukio Mishima, Yuriko Miyamoto. Expand index (172 more) »
A Personal Matter
A Personal Matter (個人的な体験; Kojinteki na taiken) is a novel by Japanese writer Kenzaburō Ōe.
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Agency for Cultural Affairs
The is a special body of the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT).
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Akazome Emon
was a Japanese waka poet and early historian who lived in the mid-Heian period.
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Akiyuki Nosaka
was a Japanese novelist, singer, lyricist, and member of the House of Councillors.
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Ango Sakaguchi
was a Japanese novelist and essayist.
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Aozora Bunko
Aozora Bunko (青空文庫, literally the "Blue Sky Library", also known as the "Open Air Library") is a Japanese digital library.
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Ashihei Hino
was born in Wakamatsu (now Wakamatsu ward, Kitakyūshū) and in 1937 he received the prestigious Akutagawa Prize for one of his novels,.
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Ayako Miura
was a Japanese novelist.
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Ayako Sono
is a Japanese Catholic writer.
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Ōtomo no Yakamochi
was a Japanese statesman and waka poet in the Nara period.
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Banana Yoshimoto
(born 24 July 1964) is the pen name of Japanese writer.
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Botchan
is a novel written by Natsume Sōseki in 1906.
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Buddhism
Buddhism is the world's fourth-largest religion with over 520 million followers, or over 7% of the global population, known as Buddhists.
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Buddhism in Japan
Buddhism in Japan has been practiced since its official introduction in 552 CE according to the Nihon Shoki from Baekje, Korea, by Buddhist monks.
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Cell phone novel
A cell phone novel, or, is a literary work originally written on a cellular phone via text messaging.
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Cf.
The abbreviation cf. (short for the confer/conferatur, both meaning "compare") is used in writing to refer the reader to other material to make a comparison with the topic being discussed.
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Chōnin
was a social class that emerged in Japan during the early years of the Tokugawa period.
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Chikamatsu Monzaemon
was a Japanese dramatist of jōruri, the form of puppet theater that later came to be known as bunraku, and the live-actor drama, kabuki.
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China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a unitary one-party sovereign state in East Asia and the world's most populous country, with a population of around /1e9 round 3 billion.
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Chinese literature
The history of Chinese literature extends thousands of years, from the earliest recorded dynastic court archives to the mature vernacular fiction novels that arose during the Ming Dynasty to entertain the masses of literate Chinese.
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Chiyo Uno
Chiyo Uno (宇野 千代 November 28, 1897 – June 10, 1996) was a female Japanese author who wrote several notable works and was a known kimono designer.
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Classical Chinese
Classical Chinese, also known as Literary Chinese, is the language of the classic literature from the end of the Spring and Autumn period through to the end of the Han Dynasty, a written form of Old Chinese.
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Dejima
, in old Western documents Latinised as Deshima, Decima, Desjima, Dezima, Disma, or Disima, was a Dutch trading post notable for being the single place of direct trade and exchange between Japan and the outside world during the Edo period. It was a small fan-shaped artificial island formed by digging a canal through a small peninsula in the bay of Nagasaki in 1634 by local merchants. Dejima was built to constrain foreign traders. Originally built to house Portuguese traders, it was used by the Dutch as a trading post from 1641 until 1853. Covering an area of or, it was later integrated into the city through the process of land reclamation. In 1922, the "Dejima Dutch Trading Post" was designated a Japanese national historic site.
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Denji Kuroshima
was a Japanese author.
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Donald Keene
Donald Lawrence Keene (born June 18, 1922) is an American-born Japanese scholar, historian, teacher, writer and translator of Japanese literature.
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Doppo Kunikida
was a Japanese author of novels and romantic poetry during the Meiji period, noted as one of the inventors of Japanese naturalism.
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Edo
, also romanized as Jedo, Yedo or Yeddo, is the former name of Tokyo.
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Edo meisho zue
is an illustrated guide describing famous places, called meisho, and depicting their scenery in pre-1868 Tokyo, then known as Edo.
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Edo period
The or is the period between 1603 and 1868 in the history of Japan, when Japanese society was under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate and the country's 300 regional daimyō.
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Edogawa Ranpo
, better known by the pseudonym, also romanized as Edogawa Rampo, was a Japanese author and critic who played a major role in the development of Japanese mystery fiction.
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Eiji Yoshikawa
was a Japanese historical novelist.
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Fires on the Plain (novel)
Fires on the Plain (Japanese: 野火 Nobi) is a Yomiuri Prize-winning novel by Ooka Shohei, published in 1951.
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Flying saucer
A flying saucer (also referred to as "a flying disc") is a descriptive term for a supposed type of flying craft having a disc or saucer-shaped body, commonly used generically to refer to an anomalous flying object.
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Fukuda Chiyo-ni
Fukuda Chiyo-ni (Kaga no Chiyo) (福田 千代尼; 1703 - 2 October 1775) was a Japanese poet of the Edo period, widely regarded as one of the greatest poets of haiku (then called hokku).
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Fukuzawa Yukichi
was a Japanese author, writer, teacher, translator, entrepreneur and journalist who founded Keio University, Jiji-Shinpō (a newspaper) and the Institute for Study of Infectious Diseases.
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Fumiko Enchi
was the pen-name of Fumiko Ueda, one of the most prominent Japanese women writers in the Shōwa period of Japan.
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Fumiko Hayashi (author)
was a Japanese novelist and poet.
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Futabatei Shimei
was a Japanese author, translator, and literary critic.
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Haikai
Haikai (Japanese 俳諧 comic, unorthodox) may refer in both Japanese and English to haikai no renga (renku), a popular genre of Japanese linked verse, which developed in the sixteenth century out of the earlier aristocratic renga.
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Haiku
(plural haiku) is a very short Japan poem with seventeen syllables and three verses.
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Hakushū Kitahara
is the pen-name of, a Japanese tanka poet active during the Taishō and Shōwa periods of Japan.
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Haruki Murakami
is a Japanese writer.
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Haruo Umezaki
was a twentieth century Japanese writer of short stories about Japan during and after World War II.
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Hōjōki
, variously translated as An Account of My Hut or The Ten Foot Square Hut, is an important and popular short work of the early Kamakura period (1185–1333) in Japan by Kamo no Chōmei.
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Heian period
The is the last division of classical Japanese history, running from 794 to 1185.
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Hideo Oguma
was a Japanese poet for the Proletarian literature movement and was noted for writing children's stories, comic books and literary criticism.
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Hime
Hime (姫) is the Japanese word for "princess", or more literally "demoiselle", i.e. a (usually young) lady of higher birth.
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Hiraga Gennai
was an Edo period Japanese pharmacologist, student of Rangaku, physician, author, painter and inventor who is well known for his Erekiteru (electrostatic generator), Kandankei (thermometer) and Kakanpu (asbestos cloth).
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Hisashi Inoue
was a leading Japanese playwright and writer of comic fiction.
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Hokku
is the opening stanza of a Japanese orthodox collaborative linked poem, renga, or of its later derivative, renku (haikai no renga).
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Hokuetsu Seppu
Hokuetsu Seppu (北越雪譜 "Snow stories of North Etsu Province"; translation: Snow Country Tales: Life in the other Japan by Jeffrey Hunter with Rose Lesser, Weatherhill, 1986) is a late Edo-period encyclopedic work of human geography describing life in the Uonuma area of Japan's old Echigo Province, a place known for its long winters and deep snow.
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Hokusai
was a Japanese artist, ukiyo-e painter and printmaker of the Edo period.
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Human geography
Human geography is the branch of geography that deals with the study of people and their communities, cultures, economies, and interactions with the environment by studying their relations with and across space and place.
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Hyakken Uchida
was a Japanese author and academic.
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I Am a Cat
is a satirical novel written in 1905–1906 by Natsume Sōseki, about Japanese society during the Meiji period (1868–1912); particularly, the uneasy mix of Western culture and Japanese traditions, and the aping of Western customs.
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I Novel
is a literary genre in Japanese literature used to describe a type of confessional literature where the events in the story correspond to events in the author's life.
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Ichiyō Higuchi
was the pen name of Japanese author, also known as.
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Ihara Saikaku
was a Japanese poet and creator of the "floating world" genre of Japanese prose (ukiyo-zōshi).
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Indian literature
Indian literature refers to the literature produced on the Indian subcontinent until 1947 and in the Republic of India thereafter.
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Ineko Sata
was a well respected Japanese author, closely connected to the proletarian literary movement, the Japanese Communist Party, and the Women's Democratic Club.
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Iroha
The is a Japanese poem, probably written in the Heian era (794–1179).
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Itō Sachio
was the pen-name of, a Japanese tanka poet and novelist active during the Meiji period of Japan.
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Izumi Shikibu
was a mid Heian period Japanese poet.
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Japan Foundation
The was established in 1972 by an Act of the National Diet as a special legal entity to undertake international dissemination of Japanese culture, and became an Independent Administrative Institution under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on 1 October 2003 under the "Independent Administrative Institution Japan Foundation Law".
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Japan–Netherlands relations
Japanese–Dutch relations (Japans-Nederlandse betrekkingen, 日蘭関係) describes the foreign relations between Japan and the Netherlands.
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Japanese detective fiction
, is a popular genre of Japanese literature.
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Japanese mobile phone culture
In Japan, mobile phones have become ubiquitous.
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Japanese poetry
Japanese poetry is poetry of or typical of Japan, or written, spoken, or chanted in the Japanese language, which includes Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese, and Modern Japanese, and some poetry in Japan which was written in the Chinese language or ryūka from the Okinawa Islands: it is possible to make a more accurate distinction between Japanese poetry written in Japan or by Japanese people in other languages versus that written in the Japanese language by speaking of Japanese-language poetry.
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Japanese science fiction
Science fiction is an important subgenre of modern Japanese literature that has strongly influenced aspects of contemporary Japanese pop culture, including anime, manga, video games, tokusatsu, and cinema.
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Japanese yen
The is the official currency of Japan.
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Jōruri (music)
is a form of traditional Japanese narrative music in which a sings to the accompaniment of a shamisen.
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Jippensha Ikku
was the pen name of Shigeta Sadakazu (重田 貞一), a Japanese writer active during the late Edo period of Japan.
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Jun Ishikawa
was the pen name of a modernist author, translator and literary critic active in Shōwa period Japan.
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Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
was one of the major writers of modern Japanese literature, and perhaps the most popular Japanese novelist after Natsume Sōseki.
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Kabuki
is a classical Japanese dance-drama.
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Kafū Nagai
was the pseudonym of the Japanese author, playwright, essayist, and diarist Nagai Sōkichi (永井 壮吉).
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Kagoshima
is the capital city of Kagoshima Prefecture at the south western tip of the island of Kyushu in Japan, and the largest city in the prefecture by some margin.
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Kaitai Shinsho
is a medical text translated into Japanese during the Edo period.
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Kakinomoto no Hitomaro
was a Japanese waka poet and aristocrat of the late Asuka period.
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Kakure Kirishitan
Kakure Kirishitan is a modern term for a member of the Japanese Catholic Church during the Edo period that went underground after the Shimabara Rebellion in the 1630s.
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Kamo no Chōmei
was a Japanese author, poet (in the waka form), and essayist.
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Kan Kikuchi
, known by his pen name Kan Kikuchi (which uses the same kanji as his real name), was a Japanese author born in Takamatsu, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan.
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Kana
are syllabic Japanese scripts, a part of the Japanese writing system contrasted with the logographic Chinese characters known in Japan as kanji (漢字).
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Kanji
Kanji (漢字) are the adopted logographic Chinese characters that are used in the Japanese writing system.
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Kansei
was a after Tenmei and before Kyōwa.
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Kansuke Naka
was a Japanese novelist and essayist.
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Katai Tayama
Katai Tayama (田山 花袋 Tayama Katai, 22 January 1872 – 13 May 1930, born Tayama Rokuya) was a Japanese author.
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Kōbō Abe
, pseudonym of, was a Japanese writer, playwright, photographer and inventor.
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Kōda Rohan
who used the pen name was a Japanese author in the Meiji period.
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Kōenji
is a district of Tokyo in Suginami ward, west of Shinjuku.
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Kōtarō Takamura
was a Japanese poet and sculptor.
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Kenji Miyazawa
was a Japanese poet and author of children's literature from Hanamaki, Iwate, in the late Taishō and early Shōwa periods.
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Kenji Nakagami
was a Japanese novelist and essayist.
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Kenzaburō Ōe
is a Japanese writer and a major figure in contemporary Japanese literature.
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Kibyōshi
is a genre of Japanese picture book kusazōshi (草双紙) produced during the middle of the Edo period, from 1775 to the early 19th century.
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Kitchen (novel)
Kitchen （キッチン）is a novel written by Japanese author Banana Yoshimoto (吉本ばなな）in 1988 and translated into English in 1993 by Megan Backus. Although one may notice a certain Western influence in Yoshimoto's style, Kitchen is still critically recognized as an example of contemporary Japanese literature; The Independent, The Times and The New Yorker have all reviewed the novel favorably. Most editions also include a novella entitled Moonlight Shadow, which is also a tragedy dealing with loss and love. There have been two films made of the story, a Japanese TV movie in 1989 and a more widely released version produced in Hong Kong by Yim Ho in 1997.
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Kobayashi Issa
was a Japanese poet and lay Buddhist priest of the Jōdo Shinshū sect known for his haiku poems and journals.
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Koizora
, or for short, is a 2005 best-selling Japanese coming of age and romance novel written by Mika.
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Kojiki
, also sometimes read as Furukotofumi, is the oldest extant chronicle in Japan, dating from the early 8th century (711–712) and composed by Ō no Yasumaro at the request of Empress Genmei with the purpose of sanctifying the imperial court's claims to supremacy over rival clans.
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Kokin Wakashū
The, commonly abbreviated as, is an early anthology of the waka form of Japanese poetry, dating from the Heian period.
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Kokoro
is a novel by the Japanese author Natsume Sōseki.
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Konjaku Monogatarishū
, also known as the, is a Japanese collection of over one thousand tales written during the late Heian period (794–1185).
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Kyōka Izumi
, real name, is the pen name of a Japanese author of novels, short stories, and kabuki plays who was active during the prewar period.
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Kyushu
is the third largest island of Japan and most southwesterly of its four main islands.
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Lafcadio Hearn
Patrick Lafcadio Hearn (Πατρίκιος Λευκάδιος Χερν; 27 June 1850 – 26 September 1904), known also by the Japanese name, was a writer, known best for his books about Japan, especially his collections of Japanese legends and ghost stories, such as Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things.
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Light novel
A is a style of Japanese novel primarily, but not exclusively, targeting high-school and middle-school students (young adult demographic).
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List of Japanese classical texts
This is a list of Japanese classic texts.
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List of Japanese writers
This is an alphabetical list of writers who are Japanese, or are famous for having written in the Japanese language.
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Man'yōgana
is an ancient writing system that employs Chinese characters to represent the Japanese language, and was the first known kana system to be developed as a means to represent the Japanese language phonetically.
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Man'yōshū
The is the oldest existing collection of Japanese poetry, compiled sometime after AD 759 during the Nara period.
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Manchukuo
Manchukuo was a puppet state of the Empire of Japan in Northeast China and Inner Mongolia from 1932 until 1945.
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Manga
are comics created in Japan or by creators in the Japanese language, conforming to a style developed in Japan in the late 19th century.
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Mark Twain
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer.
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Masaoka Shiki
, pen-name of Masaoka Noboru (正岡 升), was a Japanese poet, author, and literary critic in Meiji period Japan.
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Masuji Ibuse
was a Japanese author.
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Matsuo Bashō
, born 松尾 金作, then, was the most famous poet of the Edo period in Japan.
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Meiji period
The, also known as the Meiji era, is a Japanese era which extended from October 23, 1868, to July 30, 1912.
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Michiko Yamamoto
is the pen-name of a Japanese writer of short stories and poetry in Shōwa and Heisei period Japan.
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Minamoto clan
was one of the surnames bestowed by the Emperors of Japan upon members of the imperial family who were excluded from the line of succession and demoted into the ranks of the nobility.
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Mitsuharu Kaneko
was a Japanese poet and painter.
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Miyamoto Musashi
, also known as Shinmen Takezō, Miyamoto Bennosuke or, by his Buddhist name, Niten Dōraku, was a Japanese swordsman, philosopher, writer and rōnin.
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Mori Ōgai
Lieutenant-General, known by his pen name Mori Ōgai, was a Japanese Army Surgeon general officer, translator, novelist, poet and father of famed author Mari Mori.
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Motojirō Kajii
was a Japanese author in the early Shōwa period known for his poetic short stories.
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Motoori Norinaga
was a Japanese scholar of Kokugaku active during the Edo period.
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Murasaki Shikibu
was a Japanese novelist, poet and lady-in-waiting at the Imperial court during the Heian period.
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Myōjō
was a monthly literary magazine published in Japan between February 1900 and November 1908.
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Nakane Kōtei
was a Japanese writer who lived during the late Edo Period and Meiji Era.
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Nansō Satomi Hakkenden
is a Japanese epic novel in 106 volumes by Kyokutei Bakin.
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Naoki Prize
The Naoki Prize is a Japanese literary award presented semiannually.
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Naoya Shiga
was a Japanese novelist and short story writer active during the Taishō and Shōwa periods of Japan.
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Nara period
The of the history of Japan covers the years from AD 710 to 794.
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Natsume Sōseki
, born, was a Japanese novelist.
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Natsuo Kirino
is the pen name of Mariko Hashioka, a Japanese novelist and a leading figure in the recent boom of female writers of Japanese detective fiction.
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Naturalism (literature)
The term naturalism was coined by Émile Zola, who defines it as a literary movement which emphasizes observation and the scientific method in the fictional portrayal of reality.
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Nihilism
Nihilism is the philosophical viewpoint that suggests the denial or lack of belief towards the reputedly meaningful aspects of life.
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Nihon Shoki
The, sometimes translated as The Chronicles of Japan, is the second-oldest book of classical Japanese history.
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Nobel Prize in Literature
The Nobel Prize in Literature (Nobelpriset i litteratur) is a Swedish literature prize that has been awarded annually, since 1901, to an author from any country who has, in the words of the will of Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, produced "in the field of literature the most outstanding work in an ideal direction" (original Swedish: "den som inom litteraturen har producerat det mest framstående verket i en idealisk riktning").
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Nobuo Kojima
was a Japanese writer prominent in the postwar era.
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Noh
, derived from the Sino-Japanese word for "skill" or "talent", is a major form of classical Japanese musical drama that has been performed since the 14th century.
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Norwegian Wood (novel)
is a 1987 novel by Japanese author Haruki Murakami.
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Oku no Hosomichi
, translated alternately 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.
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Ono no Komachi
was a Japanese waka poet, one of the Rokkasen — the six best waka poets of the early Heian period.
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Osamu Dazai
was a Japanese author who is considered one of the foremost fiction writers of 20th-century Japan.
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Ozaki Kōyō
was a Japanese author.
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Polymath
A polymath (πολυμαθής,, "having learned much,"The term was first recorded in written English in the early seventeenth century Latin: uomo universalis, "universal man") is a person whose expertise spans a significant number of different subject areas—such a person is known to draw on complex bodies of knowledge to solve specific problems.
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Rangaku
Rangaku (Kyūjitai: 學/Shinjitai: 蘭学, literally "Dutch learning", and by extension "Western learning") is a body of knowledge developed by Japan through its contacts with the Dutch enclave of Dejima, which allowed Japan to keep abreast of Western technology and medicine in the period when the country was closed to foreigners, 1641–1853, because of the Tokugawa shogunate's policy of national isolation (sakoku).
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Realism (arts)
Realism, sometimes called naturalism, in the arts is generally the attempt to represent subject matter truthfully, without artificiality and avoiding artistic conventions, or implausible, exotic, and supernatural elements.
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Renga
is a genre of Japanese collaborative poetry — poetry written by more than one author working together.
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Romanticism
Romanticism (also known as the Romantic era) was an artistic, literary, musical and intellectual movement that originated in Europe toward the end of the 18th century, and in most areas was at its peak in the approximate period from 1800 to 1850.
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Ryōtarō Shiba
, born, was a Japanese author best known for his novels about historical events in Japan and on the Northeast Asian sub-continent, as well as his historical and cultural essays pertaining to Japan and its relationship to the rest of the world.
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Ryū Murakami
is a Japanese novelist, short story writer, essayist and filmmaker.
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Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
, art name Chōkōdō Shujin(澄江堂主人) was a Japanese writer active in the Taishō period in Japan.
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Sakae Tsuboi
was a Japanese novelist and poet.
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Sakoku
was the isolationist foreign policy of the Japanese Tokugawa shogunate under which relations and trade between Japan and other countries were severely limited, nearly all foreigners were barred from entering Japan, and common Japanese people were kept from leaving the country for a period of over 220 years.
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Sakunosuke Oda
Oda Sakunosuke (around 1945) was a Japanese writer.
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Sakurajima
Sakurajima (桜島, literally "Cherry blossom Island") is an active composite volcano and a former island in Kagoshima Prefecture in Kyushu, Japan.
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Saneatsu Mushanokōji
was a Japanese novelist, playwright, poet, artist, and philosopher active during the late Taishō and Shōwa periods of Japan.
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Santō Kyōden
was a Japanese poet, writer and artist in the Edo period.
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Sawako Ariyoshi
Sawako Ariyoshi (有吉 佐和子 Ariyoshi Sawako, 20 January 1931 – 30 August 1984) was a prolific female Japanese writer, known for such works as The Doctor's Wife and The River Ki. She was known for her advocacy of social issues, such as the elderly in Japanese society, and environmental issues.
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Science fiction
Science fiction (often shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction, typically dealing with imaginative concepts such as advanced science and technology, spaceflight, time travel, and extraterrestrial life.
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Sei Shōnagon
, (c. 966–1017/1025) was a Japanese author, poet and a court lady who served the Empress Teishi (Sadako) around the year 1000 during the middle Heian period.
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Seppuku
Seppuku (切腹, "cutting belly"), sometimes referred to as harakiri (腹切り, "abdomen/belly cutting", a native Japanese kun reading), is a form of Japanese ritual suicide by disembowelment.
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Setsuwa
Setsuwa (説話) is a Japanese literary genre.
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Shōhei Ōoka
was a Japanese novelist, literary critic, and translator of French literature who was active during the Shōwa period of Japan.
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Shūsaku Endō
was a Japanese author who wrote from the rare perspective of a Japanese Roman Catholic.
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Shigeji Tsuboi
was an influential Japanese poet of the modern era of Japanese literature.
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Shin Kokin Wakashū
The, also known in abbreviated form as the 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.
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Sugawara no Michizane
, also known as or, was a scholar, poet, and politician of the Heian Period of Japan.
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Sugita Genpaku
was a Japanese scholar known for his translation of Kaitai Shinsho (New Book of Anatomy).
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Syllabary
A syllabary is a set of written symbols that represent the syllables or (more frequently) moras which make up words.
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Taira clan
was a major Japanese clan of samurai.
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Takeo Arishima
was a Japanese novelist, short-story writer and essayist during the late Meiji and Taishō periods.
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Takiji Kobayashi
was a Japanese author of proletarian literature.
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Takizawa Bakin
was a late Japanese Edo period gesaku author best known for works such as Nansō Satomi Hakkenden (The Chronicles of the Eight Dog Heroes of the Satomi Clan of Nansô) and Chinsetsu Yumiharizuki (Strange Tales of the Crescent Moon).
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Takuboku Ishikawa
was a Japanese poet.
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Tamiki Hara
was a Japanese author and survivor of the bombing of Hiroshima, known for his works of Atomic bomb literature.
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Tanka
is a genre of classical Japanese poetry and one of the major genres of Japanese literature.
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Tatsuzō Ishikawa
was a Japanese author.
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Tōkaidōchū Hizakurige
, abbreviated as Hizakurige and known in translation as Shank's Mare, is a comic picaresque novel (kokkeibon) written by Jippensha Ikku (十返舎一九, 1765–1831) about the misadventures of two travelers on the Tōkaidō, the main road between Kyoto and Edo during the Edo period.
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Tōson Shimazaki
was the pen-name of Shimazaki Haruki, a Japanese author, active in the Meiji, Taishō and early Shōwa periods of Japan.
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The Book of Five Rings
is a text on kenjutsu and the martial arts in general, written by the Japanese swordsman Miyamoto Musashi around 1645.
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The Pillow Book
is a book of observations and musings recorded by Sei Shōnagon during her time as court lady to Empress Consort Teishi (定子) during the 990s and early 1000s in Heian Japan.
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The Setting Sun
is a Japanese novel by Osamu Dazai.
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The Tale of Genji
is a classic work of Japanese literature written by the noblewoman and lady-in-waiting Murasaki Shikibu in the early years of the 11th century.
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The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter
is a 10th-century Japanese monogatari (fictional prose narrative) containing Japanese folklore.
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The Tale of the Heike
is an epic account compiled prior to 1330 of the struggle between the Taira and Minamoto clans for control of Japan at the end of the 12th century in the Genpei War (1180–1185).
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The Wild Geese (Mori novel)
Mori Ōgai's classical novel, The Wild Geese or The Wild Goose (1911–13, 雁 Gan), was first published in serial form in Japan, and tells the story of unfulfilled love set against a background of social change and Westernization.
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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
is a novel published in 1994–1995 by Japanese author Haruki Murakami.
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The Woman in the Dunes
The Woman in the Dunes (砂の女, "Sand Woman") is a novel by the Japanese writer Kōbō Abe, published in 1962.
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Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji
is a series of landscape prints by the Japanese ukiyo-e artist Hokusai (1760–1849).
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Three Kingdoms
The Three Kingdoms (220–280) was the tripartite division of China between the states of Wei (魏), Shu (蜀), and Wu (吳).
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Tokugawa shogunate
The Tokugawa shogunate, also known as the and the, was the last feudal Japanese military government, which existed between 1600 and 1868.
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Tokyo
, officially, is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan and has been the capital since 1869.
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Toyoko Yamasaki
was a Japanese novelist.
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Travel literature
The genre of travel literature encompasses outdoor literature, guide books, nature writing, and travel memoirs.
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Tsubouchi Shōyō
__NoTOC__ was a Japanese author, critic, playwright, translator, editor, educator, and professor at Waseda University.
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Tsurezuregusa
is a collection of essays written by the Japanese monk Yoshida Kenkō between 1330 and 1332.
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Ueda Akinari
Ueda Akinari or Ueda Shūsei (上田 秋成, July 25, 1734 in Osaka – August 8, 1809 in Kyoto) was a Japanese author, scholar and waka poet, and a prominent literary figure in 18th-century Japan.
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Ukiyo-e
Ukiyo-e is a genre of Japanese art which flourished from the 17th through 19th centuries.
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Ukiyo-zōshi
is the first major genre of popular Japanese fiction, written between the 1680s and the 1770s in Kyoto and Osaka.
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Unno Juza
was the pen name of Sano Shōichi (佐野 昌一), the founding father of Japanese science fiction.
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Urashima Tarō
is the protagonist of a Japanese fairy tale (otogi banashi), who in a typical modern version is a fisherman who is rewarded for rescuing a turtle, and carried on its back to the Dragon Palace (Ryūgū-jō) which lies beneath the sea.
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Water Margin
Water Margin, also translated as Outlaws of the Marsh, Tale of the Marshes, All Men Are Brothers, Men of the Marshes or The Marshes of Mount Liang, is a Chinese novel attributed to Shi Nai'an.
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Western literature
Western literature, also known as European literature, is the literature written in the context of Western culture in the languages of Europe, including the ones belonging to the Indo-European language family as well as several geographically or historically related languages such as Basque and Hungarian.
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Western world
The Western world refers to various nations depending on the context, most often including at least part of Europe and the Americas.
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William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare (26 April 1564 (baptised)—23 April 1616) was an English poet, playwright and actor, widely regarded as both the greatest writer in the English language, and the world's pre-eminent dramatist.
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Woodblock printing in Japan
Woodblock printing in Japan (木版画, mokuhanga) is a technique best known for its use in the ukiyo-e artistic genre of single sheets, but it was also used for printing books in the same period.
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World War II
World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.
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Yaeko Nogami
was the pen-name of a novelist in Shōwa period Japan.
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Yamamoto Tsunetomo
, also read Yamamoto Jōchō (June 11, 1659 – November 30, 1719), was a samurai of the Saga Domain in Hizen Province under his lord Nabeshima Mitsushige.
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Yasunari Kawabata
was a Japanese novelist and short story writer whose spare, lyrical, subtly-shaded prose works won him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1968, the first Japanese author to receive the award.
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Yasushi Inoue
was a Japanese writer of poetry, essays, short fiction, and novels.
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Yokoi Yayū
was a Japanese samurai best known for his haibun, a scholar of Kokugaku, and haikai poet.
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Yomihon
is a type of Japanese book from the Edo period (1603–1867), that was influenced by Chinese vernacular novels such as Water Margin.
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Yomiuri Prize
The is a literary award in Japan.
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Yone Noguchi
, was an influential Japanese writer of poetry, fiction, essays, and literary criticism in both English and Japanese.
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Yosa Buson
was a Japanese poet and painter of the Edo period.
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Yosano Akiko
(7 December 1878 – 29 May 1942) was the pen-name of a Japanese author, poet, pioneering feminist, pacifist, and social reformer, active in the late Meiji period as well as the Taishō and early Shōwa periods of Japan.
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Yoshida Kenkō
was a Japanese author and Buddhist monk.
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Yoshikichi Furui
is a noted Japanese author and translator.
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Yukio Mishima
is the pen name of, a Japanese author, poet, playwright, actor, model, film director, founder of the Tatenokai, and nationalist.
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Yuriko Miyamoto
was a Japanese novelist active during the Taishō and early Shōwa periods of Japan.
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