Bungo still has some relevance for historians, literary scholars, and lawyers ( many Japanese laws that survived World War II are still written in bungo, although there are ongoing efforts to modernize their language ).

Category: Japanese literary terms

Category: Japanese literary terms

It provides an early indication of the values and literary self-image of the Bushidō ideal, including references to the use and admiration of the sword by Japanese warriors.

In 1989-1990, Eiken Animation of Japan released Seton Doubutsuki ( Japanese: シートン動物記, English: " Seton Animal Chronicles ") a 45-episode anime TV series that depicts the different literary works of Seton including his 1898 " Wild animals I have Known ".

Some of Japan's literary monuments were written during the Nara period, including the Kojiki and Nihon Shoki, the first national histories, compiled in 712 and 720 respectively ; the Man ' yōshū, an anthology of poems ; and the Kaifūsō, an anthology written in Chinese by Japanese emperors and princes.

Direct literary models were available from a number of sources, including F. V. Dickins ’ s 1866 Hyak nin is ’ shiu, or, Stanzas by a Century of Poets, Being Japanese Lyrical Odes, the first English-language version of the Hyakunin isshu, a 13th-century anthology of 100 tanka, the early 20th-century critical writings and poems of Sadakichi Hartmann, and contemporary French-language translations.

Aozora Bunko was created on the Internet in 1997 to provide broadly available, free access to Japanese literary works whose copyrights had expired.

While writing was largely unknown to the indigenous Japanese of this period, the literary skills of foreigners seem to have become increasingly appreciated by the Japanese elite in many regions.

Category: Japanese literary terms

The Japanese poet Yone Noguchi began his literary career while living in the cabin adjoining Millers ' during the latter half of the 1890s.

was a Japanese author, translator, and literary critic.

He was befriended by the influential literary critic Kobayashi Hideo, who introduced him to the French symbolist poets Arthur Rimbaud and Paul Verlaine, whose poems he translated into Japanese.

In addition to his literary career, Itō was also an amateur master of the Japanese tea ceremony.

Category: Japanese literary magazines

In 1900, the Japanese government sent Natsume to study in Great Britain as " Japan's first Japanese English literary scholar ".

In 1908 he was one of the founding members of the literary circle, through which he became acquainted with Kafū Nagai, Rokuzan Ogiwara, Kaoru Osanai, Kōtarō Takamura, Jun ' ichirō Tanizaki, Bin Ueda and other noted figures in the Japanese literary and artistic world.

Meanwhile, he also attempted to revitalize modern Japanese literature and published his own literary journal ( Shigarami sōshi, 1889 – 1894 ) and his own book of poetry ( Omokage, 1889 ).

Category: Japanese literary critics

Yoshitsune has long been a popular figure in Japanese literature and culture due to his appearance as the main character in the third section of the Japanese literary classic Heike Monogatari ( Tale of the Heike ).

* The most comprehensive collection of Japanese pre-20th century art in the Western world

On top of this there are many non-European clowning traditions ( including clown-like figures in Japanese Kabuki theatre ), North American native shaman traditions to consider which may or may not have influenced what we now think of as a clown in the Western world.

The Japanese had more varieties of mail than all the rest of the world put together.

* There is a Japanese lesbians ' magazine named after Carmilla, as Carmilla " draws hetero women into the world of love between women ".

Many faiths around the world — from Japanese Shinto and Chinese traditional religion, to certain African practices and the faiths derived from those in the Caribbean, to Native American beliefs — hold that ancestral or household spirits offer daily protection and blessings.

* 1922 – Japanese aircraft carrier Hōshō becomes the first purpose built aircraft carrier to be commissioned in the world.

Adaptations of DDC for specific regions outside the English-speaking world include the Korean Decimal Classification, the New Classification Scheme for Chinese Libraries and the Nippon Decimal Classification ( Japanese ).

( Originally, the Fujiwara were descended from relatively minor nobility, thus their kami is an unremarkable one in the Japanese myth world.

The building was named after the ancient phrase of Hakkō ichiu ( literally " eight cords, one roof "), which had been attributed to Emperor Jimmu and, since 1928, has been espoused by the Imperial government as an expression of Japanese expansionism, as it envisioned to the unification of the world ( the " eight corners of the world ") under the Emperor's " sacred rule ", a goal that was considered imperative to all Japanese subjects, as Jimmu, finding five races in Japan, had made them all as " brothers of one family.

The decade started with Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon ( 1950 ), which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival and marked the entrance of Japanese cinema onto the world stage.

The first chapter of the Nihongi (" Chronicles of Japan ") describes the ancient Japanese belief that the world was flat and that dry land floated " like oil " on water:

Both males and females grow to an adult length of to from snout to vent, with a total length of to making it the third largest aquatic salamander species in the world ( next to the Chinese giant salamander and the Japanese giant salamander ) and the largest in North America.

Each Japanese syllabic alphabet ( hiragana or katakana, see Kana ) would fit, but like several other alphabets of the world they aren't encoded in the ISO / IEC 8859 system.

In the English-speaking world, examples include the word ‘ bazinga ’ from the CBS show The Big Bang Theory and, in Japanese, the term moe has come into common use among slang users to mean something extremely cute and appealing.

In 2008, the Japanese Central Bank still has the lowest interest rates in the developed world, deflation has still not been eliminated and the Nikkei 225 has fallen over approximately 50 % ( between June 2007 and December 2008 ).

Though his films are predominantly set in the United States, Jarmusch has advanced the notion that he looks at America " through a foreigner's eyes ", with the intention of creating a form of world cinema that synthesizes European and Japanese film with that of Hollywood.

* Japanese diaspora, Japanese emigrants and their descendants around the world

Known as the meat of the vegetable world, edible mushrooms are used extensively in cooking, in many cuisines ( notably Chinese, Korean, European, and Japanese ).

A major ongoing privatization, that of Japan Post, involves the Japanese post service and the largest bank in the world.

In Four Black Dragons various peasants describe the arrival of the American ships with escalating panic, until finally the nightmarish event does seem to be, as claimed, the end of the world .... Someone in a Tree, is a compact Rashomon-and as fine as anything Mr. Sondheim has written ... The single Act II triumph, Bowler Hat, could well be a V. S. Naipaul tale set to music and illustrated with spare Japanese brushstrokes ... Bowler Hat delivers the point of Pacific Overtures so artfully that the rest of Act II seems superfluous.

* 26-Yoshio Shirai, 80, first Japanese world boxing champion, pneumonia.