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ARTICLES RELATED TO Japanese literature - History | | | |  Japanese literature - History: 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 ...
See also:Japanese literature, Japanese literature - History, Japanese literature - Ancient Literature pre-8th Century, Japanese literature - Classical Literature 8th Century - 12th Century, Japanese literature - Medieval Literature 13th Century - 16th Century, Japanese literature - Early-Modern Literature 17th Century - mid-19th Century, Japanese literature - Meiji and Taisho Literature late 19th Century - WW II, Japanese literature - Post-war literature, Japanese literature - The Future of Japanese Literature, Japanese literature - Significant authors and works, Japanese literature - Awards and Contests, Japanese literature - Resources Read more here: » Japanese literature: Encyclopedia II - Japanese literature - History |
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| | | | Japanese literature - History: Encyclopedia II - Japanese literature - Significant authors and works Famous authors and literary works of significant stature are listed in chronological order below. For an exhaustive list of authors see List of Japanese authors:
Classical Literature
Sei Shonagon (c.~966 - c.10??): The Pillow Book
Murasaki Shikibu (c.973 - c.1025): The Tale of Genji
Medieval Literature
The Tale of the Heike (1371)
Early-Modern Literature
Ihara Saikaku (1642 – 1693)
Matsuo Basho (1644 - 1694)
Ueda Akinari (1734 - 1809)
Santo Kyoden (1761 - 1816)
Jupp ...
See also:Japanese literature, Japanese literature - History, Japanese literature - Ancient Literature pre-8th Century, Japanese literature - Classical Literature 8th Century - 12th Century, Japanese literature - Medieval Literature 13th Century - 16th Century, Japanese literature - Early-Modern Literature 17th Century - mid-19th Century, Japanese literature - Meiji and Taisho Literature late 19th Century - WW II, Japanese literature - Post-war literature, Japanese literature - The Future of Japanese Literature, Japanese literature - Significant authors and works, Japanese literature - Awards and Contests, Japanese literature - Resources Read more here: » Japanese literature: Encyclopedia II - Japanese literature - Significant authors and works |
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| | | | Japanese literature - History: Encyclopedia II - Japanese literature - Post-war literature World War II, and Japan's defeat, influenced Japanese literature. Many authors wrote stories of disaffection, loss of purpose, and the coping with defeat. Dazai Osamu's novel The Setting Sun tells of a soldier returning from Manchukuo. Mishima Yukio, well known for both his nihilistic writing and his controversial suicide by seppuku, began writing in the post-war period.
Prominent writers of the 1970s and 1980s were identified with intellectual and moral issues in their attempts to raise social and political consciousness. One ...
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