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| ARTICLES RELATED TO Japanese literature | | | |  Japanese literature: Encyclopedia II - Japanese literature - HistoryJapanese Literature is generally divided into three main periods: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern.
Japanese literature - Ancient Literature pre-8th Century.
With the introduction of kanji (Chinese characters) from the Asian mainland, writing became possible. Before this there had been no native writing system. The only literary language was classical Chinese to begin with; later, Chinese characters were adapted to write Japanese, creating what is known as the man'yōgana, the earliest form of kana, or syllab ...
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| | | | Japanese literature: Encyclopedia II - Japanese language - Grammar
Japanese language - Sentence structure.
The basic Japanese word order is Subject Object Verb. Subject and object are usually marked by particles which come after the word.
The basic sentence structure is topic-comment. For example, Kochira wa Tanaka san desu. Kochira ("this") is the topic of the sentence, indicated by the particle wa. The verb is desu ("is"). As a phrase, Tanaka san desu is the comment. This sentence loosely translates to "As for this person, (it) is Mr./ ...
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| | | | Japanese literature: Encyclopedia II - Iroha - Usage The iroha contains every kana precisely once, with the exception of ん [-n], which was added to the syllabary later. For this reason, the poem was frequently used as an ordering of the kana until the Meiji era reforms in the 19th century. Thereafter the gojūon (五十音, literally "fifty sounds") ordering system became more common. This order is partly based on Sanskrit. It begins with "a, i, u, e, o" then "ka, ki, ku..." and so on for each kana used in Japanese. Although the iroha is seen as more "old fashioned" than the gojūon, the earliest known copy of ...
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| | | | Japanese literature: Encyclopedia II - Japanese language - Sounds Japanese vowels are "pure" sounds, similar to their Italian or Spanish counterparts. The only unusual vowel is the high back vowel /ɯ/, which is like /u/, but unrounded. Japanese has five vowels, and vowel length is phonemic, so each one has both a short and a long version.
Some Japanese consonants have several allophones, which may give the impression of a larger inventory of sounds. However, some of these allophones have sinc ...
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| | | | Japanese literature: Encyclopedia II - Japanese language - Writing system Before the 5th century, the Japanese had no writing system of their own. They began to adopt the Chinese writing script along with many other aspects of Chinese culture after their introduction by Korean monks and scholars during the 5th and 6th centuries AD.
At first, the Japanese wrote in Classical Chinese, or in a mixture of Chinese, used both ideographically, phonetically, and otherwise to create Japanese meanings. An example of this mixed style is the Kojiki, which was written in 712 AD. They then started to use Chinese characters to write Japan ...
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| | | | Japanese literature: Encyclopedia II - Japanese language - Learning Japanese Learning Japanese involves understanding grammar, pronunciation, the writing system, and acquiring adequate vocabulary. While the sound system is simple to master compared with those of other languages, the writing system poses a challenge for those not used to Chinese characters. On the other hand one learns a lot about Japanese culture by studying kanji characters. Japanese students begin to learn kanji characters from their first grade of an elementary school. A guideline created by the Japanese Ministry of Education, the kyōiku kanji, s ...
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| | | | Japanese literature: Encyclopedia II - Japanese language - Geographic distribution Although Japanese is spoken almost exclusively in Japan, it has been and is still sometimes spoken in countries besides Japan. When Japan occupied Korea, Taiwan, parts of China, and various Pacific islands, locals in those countries were forced to learn Japanese in empire-building programmes. As a result, there are still many people in these countries who speak Japanese instead of or as well as the local languages. In addition, emigrants from Japan, the majority of whom are found in Brazil, where the biggest Japanese community outside Japan ...
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| | | | Japanese literature: Encyclopedia II - Japanese language - Classification Historical linguists who specialize in Japanese agree that it is one of the two members of the Japonic language family, but remain divided as to the origins of the Japonic languages. An older view, still widely held by some linguists and many non-linguists, is that Japanese is a language isolate.
As for its relation to other languages, there are several theories (presented roughly in descending order of certainty):
Japanese is a member of the Altaic language family. Other languages in this group include Mongolian, Tungusi ...
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| | | | Japanese literature: Encyclopedia II - Japanese language - Vocabulary The original language of Japan was the so-called yamato kotoba. In addition to this original language, Japanese also has a great number of words that were either borrowed from Chinese or constructed on Chinese patterns. These words entered the language from the fifth century onwards via contact with Chinese culture. Chinese based words comprise as much as seventy percent of the total vocabulary of the Japanese language and form as much as ...
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| | | | Japanese literature: Encyclopedia II - The Tale of Genji - The Tale The work recounts the life of Genji, a son of the Japanese emperor, also known as Hikaru Genji, or the Shining Genji. Neither appellation is his actual name. Genji is simply another way to read the Chinese characters for the real-life Minamoto clan, to which Genji was made to belong. For political reasons, Genji is relegated to commoner status and begins a career as an imperial officer.
The tale concentrates on his romantic life and describes the customs of the aristocratic society of the time. Much is made of Genji's good look ...
See also:The Tale of Genji, The Tale of Genji - Overview, The Tale of Genji - Stature, The Tale of Genji - Authorship, The Tale of Genji - The Tale, The Tale of Genji - Is the Genji complete?, The Tale of Genji - Literary context, The Tale of Genji - Reading the Genji today, The Tale of Genji - In Japanese, The Tale of Genji - English translations, The Tale of Genji - Structure, The Tale of Genji - List of chapters, The Tale of Genji - Illustrated scroll, The Tale of Genji - Film adaptations, The Tale of Genji - Operatic adaptations Read more here: » The Tale of Genji: Encyclopedia II - The Tale of Genji - The Tale |
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| | | | Japanese literature: Encyclopedia II - Osamu Dazai - Biography Dazai was born Shuji Tsushima (津島修治), the eighth surviving child of a wealthy landowner in Tsugaru, a remote corner of Japan at the northern tip of Tōhoku. An excellent student at school and an able writer even then, his life only started to change when his idol writer Akutagawa Ryunosuke committed suicide in 1927. Shuji started to neglect his studies, spending his allowance on clothes, booze and geisha and dabbling with Marxism, at the time heavily suppressed by the government. On December 10, 1929, the night before year-end ...
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| | | | Japanese literature: Encyclopedia II - Science fiction in Japan - History
Science fiction in Japan - After World War II.
The era of modern Japanese science fiction began with the influence of paperbacks that the US occupational army brought to Japan after World War II. The first science fiction magazine in Japan, Seiun (星雲), was created in 1954 but was discontinued after only one issue. Several short-lived magazines followed Seiun onto the ...
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