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Tanka prose — is a literary genre whose individual compositions employ two modes of writing verse and prose. It was first composed by Japanese poets, often in the elementary form of a prose commentary or anecdote to accompany a poem, and only later in the more … Wikipedia
Tanka — * Tanka, a genre of Japanese poetry (see Tanka) * Tanka prose, one species of the Japanese literary genre, combines tanka poems and prose. * Thangka, a pictorial representation in Tibetan Buddhism ( Tanka is an alternative phonetic spelling) *… … Wikipedia
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Waka (poetry) — Waka (和歌, literally Japanese poem ) or Yamato uta is a genre of classical Japanese verse and one of the major genres of Japanese literature.[1] The term was coined during the Heian period, and was used to distinguish Japanese language poetry from … Wikipedia
Haibun — ( ja. 俳文 haikai writings ) is a combination of brief prose and haiku, often autobiographical or written in the form of a travelogue. The 17th century Japanese poet, Bashō, was a prominent early writer of haibun. He wrote haibun as a travel… … Wikipedia
The Pillow Book — This article is about the Japanese book. For the Peter Greenaway film of the same name, see The Pillow Book (film). Sei Shōnagon in a later 17th century drawing … Wikipedia
Japanese literature — Introduction the body of written works produced by Japanese authors in Japanese or, in its earliest beginnings, at a time when Japan had no written language, in the Chinese classical language. Both in quantity and quality, Japanese… … Universalium
Masaoka Shiki — Born 14 October 1867[1] Matsuyama, Ehime, Japan[1] … Wikipedia
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Japanese poetry — When Japanese poets first encountered Chinese poetry, it was at its peak in the Tang Dynasty. It took them several hundred years to digest the foreign impact, make it a part of their culture and merge it with their literary tradition in their… … Wikipedia