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Ki
no Tsurayuki (868?-945)
Tosa Diary
(Tosa Nikki, 935), Japan's first literary diary,
recounts his sea journey from Tosa to Kyoto as
well as his grief following the death of his
daughter. (Tosa is the former name of the Kochi
region of Shikoku Island.)
The
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Jippensha
Ikku (ca.
1765-1831)
Ikku is the
author of Hizakurige (Shank's Mare, 1802-22), a
picaresque tale of the misadventures of two
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Shank's
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Sogi,
Shohaku, Socho
Three 15th-c.
poets collectively known as the Three Poets of
Minase (Minase Sangin). Masters of the renga
form of linked verse, a long poem consisting of
alternate verses of three lines (7, 5, and 7
syllables) and two lines (7 syllables each).
Sogi Iio (1421-1502), and his disciples Shohaku
Botanka (1443-1527) and Socho Saiokuen
(1448-1532), collaborated in One Hundred Stanzas
by Three Poets at Minase (Misae Sangin Hyakuin). |
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Three
Poets at Yuyama, by Stephen D. Carter
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Taketori
Monogatari
(Tale of the Bamboo Cutter)
Regarded as
Japan's first novel, this is an early 10th-c.
fairy tale of a bamboo cutter who raises a
supernatural princess. |
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The
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Miscellaneous Classics
Anthology
of Japanese Literature...to the Mid-19th-c.
(paperback)
Anthology
of Japanese Literature...to the Mid-Nineteenth
Century
Penguin
Book of Zen Poetry
The
Penguin Book of Japanese Verse |
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