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Man'yōshū Book II
The is the oldest extant collection of Japanese (poetry in Classical Japanese), compiled sometime after AD 759 during the Nara period. The anthology is one of the most revered of Japan's poetic compilations. The compiler, or the last in a series of compilers, is today widely believed to be Ōtomo no Yakamochi, although numerous other theories have been proposed. The chronologically last datable poem in the collection is from AD 759 ( 4516). It contains many poems from a much earlier period, with the bulk of the collection representing the period between AD 600 and 759. The precise significance of the title is not known with certainty. The contains 20 volumes and more than 4,500 poems, and is divided into three genres: , songs at banquets and trips; , songs about love between men and women; and songs to mourn the death of people. These songs were written by people of various statuses, such as the Emperor, aristocrats, junior officials, soldiers ( songs) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Susumu Nakanishi
is a scholar of Japanese literature, particularly of the ''Man'yōshū''. Overview He is the honorary president of the Nara Prefecture Complex of Manyo Culture, president of the Koshinokuni Museum of Literature, and has been a guest lecturer at Princeton University. In 1970 he was awarded the Japan Academy Prize for his research in comparative literature and the ''Man'yōshū'', and in 2013 he received the Order of Culture The is a Japanese order, established on February 11, 1937. The order has one class only, and may be awarded to men and women for contributions to Japan's art, literature, science, technology, or anything related to culture in general; recipien .... He has been called "probably the greatest living scholar of the ''Man'yōshū'' in Japan". References {{DEFAULTSORT:Nakanishi, Susumu 1929 births Japanese literature academics Living people Man'yōshū Persons of Cultural Merit Recipients of the Order of Culture University of Tokyo alumni [Baidu] |
Ueda Akinari
Ueda Akinari or Ueda Shūsei (, July 25, 1734 in Osaka – August 8, 1809 in Kyoto) was a Japanese author, scholar and ''waka'' poet, and a prominent literary figure in 18th-century Japan. He was an early writer in the ''yomihon'' genre and his two masterpieces, ''Ugetsu Monogatari'' ("Tales of Rain and the Moon") and ''Harusame Monogatari'' ("Tales of Spring Rain"), are central to the canon of Japanese literature. Biography Born to an Osaka prostitute and an unknown father, Ueda was adopted in his fourth year by a wealthy merchant who reared him in comfort and provided him with a good education. As a child he became gravely ill with smallpox, and although he survived, he was left with deformed fingers on both hands. During his illness, his parents prayed to the god of the Kashima Inari Shrine, and Ueda felt that this deity had intervened and saved his life. Throughout his life he remained a strong believer in the supernatural, and this belief seems to inform important el ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kamo No Mabuchi
was a ''kokugaku'' scholar, poet and philologist during mid-Edo period Japan. Along with Kada no Azumamaro, Motoori Norinaga, and Hirata Atsutane, he was regarded as one of the Four Great Men of Kokugaku, and through his research into the spirit of ancient Japan (through his studies of the ''Man'yōshū'' and other works of ancient literature) he expounded on the theory of ''magokoro'', which he held to be fundamental to the history of Japan. Independently of and alongside his contemporary Motoori Norinaga, Mabuchi is accredited with the initial discovery of Lyman's Law, governing ''rendaku'' in the Japanese language, though which would later be named after Benjamin Smith Lyman. Biography Mabuchi was born in 1697 in the village of Iba in Tōtōmi Province (currently part of the city of Hamamatsu, Shizuoka), as the third son of Okabe Masanobu. The Okabe were hereditary ''kannushi'' of Kamo Shrine in Kyoto, but his father was from a cadet branch of the clan and was a farmer. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kada No Azumamaro
was a poet and philologist of the early Edo period. His ideas had a germinal impact on the nativist school of National Learning in Japan. Life Azumamaro was born the second son of Hakura Nobuaki (1625-1696), father of a scholarly family that for generations had supplied Shinto priests to the Inari shrine in Fushimi. From an early age he studied traditional Japanese poetry, waka, and Shinto thought and belief, and his precocity was such that he was soon employed, in 1697, as poetry tutor to one of the sons of Emperor Reigen (regnabat 1663–1687). Fushimi at the time had been described by Ihara Saikaku as an economically depressed town that had fallen down in its fortunes. This marked it off from the flourishing cultural developments of the Genroku period. He set up an academy for studying and teaching his nativist ideas in the Inari shrine. In 1700 he settled in Edo, where his students mainly came from the Shinto clergy whom he instructed in norito prayers and the Shinto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sengaku
was a Japanese Buddhist monk of the Tendai school. He was a scholar, editor and a literary critic.Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric ''et al.'' (2005). "''Senkaku''" in ; n.b., Louis-Frédéric is pseudonym of Louis-Frédéric Nussbaum, ''see'Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Authority File. His major work, ''Man'yōshū chūshaku,'' was completed in 1269. This was a treatise on the collected poems in the '' Man'yōshū'' anthology. His work was instrumental in a process of rediscovering the original meaning of this seminal work of Japanese poetry. Selected work Sengaku's published writings encompass 9 works in 12 publications in 1 language and 53 library holdings. /ref> * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kanji
are the logographic Chinese characters taken from the Chinese family of scripts, Chinese script and used in the writing of Japanese language, Japanese. They were made a major part of the Japanese writing system during the time of Old Japanese and are still used, along with the subsequently-derived syllabic scripts of ''hiragana'' and ''katakana''. The characters have Japanese pronunciation, pronunciations; most have two, with one based on the Chinese sound. A few characters were invented in Japan by constructing character components derived from other Chinese characters. After World War II, Japan made its own efforts to simplify the characters, now known as shinjitai, by a process similar to China's simplified Chinese characters, simplification efforts, with the intention to increase literacy among the common folk. Since the 1920s, the Japanese government has published character lists periodically to help direct the education of its citizenry through the myriad Chinese characte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Genryaku Manyosyu
was a after ''Juei'' and before '' Bunji.'' This period spanned the years from April 1184 through August 1185. The reigning emperors were and . Change of era * 1184 : The new era name was created to mark an event or a number of events. The previous era ended and a new one commenced in ''Juei'' 3, on the 16th day of the 4th month of 1184.Brown, p. 337. Events of the ''Genryaku'' era * 1185 (''Genryaku 2, 24th day of the 3rd month''): the Taira (also known as the Heike) and the Minamoto clashed in the Battle of Dan-no-ura; and the Heike were utterly defeated.Kitagawa, Hiroshi ''et al.'' (1975). ''The Tale of the Heike'', p. 787. * 1185 (''Genryaku 2, 9th day of the 7th month''): Great earthquake caused turmoil in the capital and in the neighboring provinces. References ;Sources * Brown, Delmer M. and Ichirō Ishida, eds. (1979) ''Gukanshō: The Future and the Past.''Berkeley: University of California Press. OCLC 251325323* Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kashū (poetry)
A , also called a or , is a private collection of '' waka'' poems compiled by the author of the poems included. The term is used in contrast to '' chokusenshū'', imperially-commissioned collections both written and compiled by multiple people, and , anthologies of poems by multiple poets privately compiled by a single editor. List of ''kashū'' *''Kakinomoto no Ason Hitomaro Kashū'' (before 759) *'' Saigū no Nyōgo Shū'' (after 985) *''Okikaze-shū'' (after the tenth century) *''Sankashū'' (c. 1180) *''Kojijū-shū'' (c. 1181) *''Nijōin no Sanuki Shū The ''Nijōin no Sanuki Shū'' (二条院讃岐集), also known as the ''Sanuki-shū'' (讃岐集) is a Japanese anthology of ''waka'' poetry. It is the personal anthology ('' kashū'') of Nijōin no Sanuki. The text dates to before 1187, probably ...'' (c. 1182) References Bibliography * *McMillan, Peter. 2010 (1st ed. 2008). ''One Hundred Poets, One Poem Each''. New York: Columbia University Press. External lin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
