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A History of Japanese Literature, Volume 1
The Archaic and Ancient Ages
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Jin'ichi Konishi
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Edited by:
Earl Miner
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Translated by:
Nicholas Teele
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English
Published/Copyright:
2017
About this book
This book, which covers the period from preliterate times to the beginning of the tenth century, is the first of five proposed volumes that will give an account of Japanese literature from its beginnings to the death of the modern novelist Mishima.
Originally published in 1984.
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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List of Tables and Illustrations
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Author's Preface
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Author's Acknowledgments
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Editor's Foreword
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General Introduction
1 - PART ONE. The Archaic Age: from Chaos to Differentiation
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Chapter 1. Primeval Chaos
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Chapter 2. Toward the Differentiation of Genres
111 - PART TWO. The Ancient Age: The Age of Kotodama
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Chapter 3. The Character of the Ancient Age
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Chapter 4. The Works, Their Reception, and Their Transmission
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Chapter 5. The Definition of Genres
266 - PART THREE. The Ancient Age: The first
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Chapter 6. The Study and Composition of Chinese
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Chapter 7. Waka Expression
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Chapter 8. Setsuwa Expression
365 - PART FOUR. The Ancient Age: The Second Stage
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Chapter 9. The Composition of Poetry and Prose in Chinese
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Chapter 10. Waka Composition
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Chapter 11. Setsuwa Composition
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Chronological Table
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Bibliography
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Finding List for Japanese Poems
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Index
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July 10, 2017
eBook ISBN:
9781400886333
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Keywords for this book
Poetry; Japanese literature; Kotodama; Literature; Japanese poetry; Japanese books; Culture of Japan; Japanese studies; English poetry; Japanese aesthetics; Setsuwa; Kusamakura (novel); Japanese language; Nihon Shoki; Monogatari (series); Sino-Japanese vocabulary; The Tale of the Heike; Japanese honorifics; Ki no Tsurayuki; Jidaimono; Murasaki Shikibu; Yayoi period; Yamato period; Japanese name; Preface; Historical linguistics; Ezra Pound; Postwar Japan; Buddhism in Japan; Fujiwara clan; The Tale of Genji; Motoori Norinaga; Yamato Takeru; Mahayana; Taoism; Heian literature; Kokugaku; Han Yu; Chinese literature; Yamato people; Comparative literature; Miyabi; Masaoka Shiki; Imperial House of Japan; Kojiki; Ihara Saikaku; Chinese poetry; Matsuo Basho; Shinto shrine; Yamato Takeru (anime); Confucianism; Book; Edo period; Textual criticism; Epic poetry; Precaution (novel); Kawatake Mokuami; Korean literature; Tenji (era); Amaterasu; Fujiwara; Haikai; Prose; Ugayafukiaezu; American literature; Chinese classics; Neo-Confucianism; Soga no Umako; Ame-no-Uzume-no-Mikoto; Izanami and Izanagi
Audience(s) for this book
For an expert adult audience, including professional development and academic research
