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The sweep of Japanese literature in all its great variety was made available to Western readers for the first time in this anthology. Every genre and style, from the celebrated No plays to the poetry and novels of the seventeenth century, find a place in this book. An introduction by Donald Keene places the selections in their proper historical context, allowing the readers to enjoy the book both as literature and as a guide to the cultural history of Japan. Selections include ?Man'yoshu" or ?Collection of Ten Thousand Leaves" from the ancient period; ?Kokinshu" or ?Collection of Ancient and Modern Poetry," ?The Tosa Diary" of Ki No Tsurayuki, ?Yugao" from ?Tales of Genji" of Murasaki Shikibu, and ?The Pillow Book" of Sei Shonagon from the Heian Period; ?The Tale of the Heike" from the Kamakura Period; Plan of the No Stage, ?Birds of Sorrow" of Seami Motokiyo, and ?Three Poets at Minase" from the Muromachi Period; and Sections from Basho, including ?The Narrow Road of Oku," ?The Love Suicides at Sonezaki" by Chikamatsu Monzaemon, and Waka and haiku of the Tokugawa Period.
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Anthony Wayer
reviewed Anthology of Japanese Literature: From the Earliest Era to the Mid-Nineteenth Century on October 04, 2011
Anthology of Japanese Literature: From the Earliest Era to the Mid-Nineteenth Century
Only got to read a little bit while staying at a vacation rental with a thick-stuffed bookshelf. I pulled this down because I've never sampled any old Japanese lit, and the editor's introduction drew me in with information like this:
. . . . the supreme masterpiece of Japanese literature was "The Tale of Genji" . . . . It is a work of genius, which may justifiably be included among the great novels of the world . . . . One of the unusual features of Heian(? can't read my note) literature is that such work as [The Tale of Genji] were written by women. The usual explanation for this curious fact is that the men considered writing in Japanese to be beneath them and devoted themselves to the composition of poetry and prose in Chinese, leaving the women to write masterpieces in the native language.
I chowed down on that affirming information for just what it is, and as it applies to my own business of blogging and making autobiographical porn.
While the menfolk did a shitty job of trying to mimic someone else's fancy poetic language and wasted their time, the women used the words they (and the rest of the common people) had access to and made something beautiful.
Good reminders to use the words you know and tell good yarns regardless of trends or what the supremely ignorant literati say.
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