Japanese Literature (thing)

After 1662 entries, the Everything Japanese Encyclopedia became too big to fit in a single volume. After much deliberation, it was decided that the EJE would be broken up into separate tomes; this is one of those.

This portion of the EJE is devoted to the writings and writers of Japan. Everything related to the written word and its production will be found here. If, during your wanderings through the nodegel, you spot a node that has been overlooked by the watchful eyes of the Encyclopedists, drop me a /msg.

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Japanese Literature

• Kinokuniya
• People
  • Writers
    • Akio Morita (Writer, cofounder of Sony)
    • Amy Yamada (Novelist) (Added by Shro0m)
    • Basil Hall Chamberlain (Writer on Japanese culture, translator)
    • Chikamatsu Monzaemon (Playwright)
    • Edogawa Ranpo (Detective Story Author) (Added by Shro0m)
    • Edwin O. Reischauer (US ambassador to Japan, author)
    • Endo Shusaku (Author)
    • Ishihara Shintaro (Writer, Governor of Tokyo)
    • Junichiro Tanizaki (Novelist)
    • Kakuzo Okakura
    • Kawahigashi Hekigodo
    • Kenzaburo Oe (Author)
    • Kobo Abe (Novelist) (Added by Shro0m)
    • Lafcadio Hearn (1st to write about Japanese culture in English) (Added by mauler)
    • Murakami Haruki (Author)
    • Murakami Ryu (Novelist)
    • Murasaki Shikibu (Author)
    • Osamu Dazai (Author) (Added by gn0sis)
    • Ougai Mori (Author)
    • Tawada Yoko (Novelist)
    • Yamamoto Tsunetomo (Author of Hagakure, Samurai, Buddhist Monk)
    • Yasunari Kawabata (Author, Winner of the Nobel Prize)
    • Yoichiro Kondo (Bartender, writer) (Added by Shro0m)
    • Yukio Mishima (Hiraoka Kimitake) (Novelist)
  • Poets
    • Dogen (Founder of Soto Zen, poet)
    • Fujiwara no Shunzei
    • Fujiwara no Teika
    • Hino Sojo
    • Kakinomoto no Hitomaro
    • Ki no Tomonori
    • Kobayashi Issa
    • Kyogoku Tamekane (Tanka poet)
    • Lady Daibu
    • Lady Ise
    • Lady Izumi
    • Masaoka Shiki
    • Matsuo Basho
    • Mibu no Tadamine
    • Murakami Kijo
    • Myoe Shonin (Buddhist monk, poet)
    • Ono no Komachi (Member of the Heian era Imperial Court, poet)
    • Oshikochi no Mitsune
    • Otomo no Sakenoue Iratsume
    • Ozaki Hosai
    • Princess Shikishi
    • Ryokan
    • Saigyo, poet and monk (Poet and Monk)
    • Saito Sanki
    • Takahama Kyoshi
    • Tawara Machi
    • Teishin (Zen nun and poet)
    • Yoko Ono (Painter, poet, musician)
    • Yosha Buson
  • Both
    • Akutagawa Ryunosuke (Poet and Author)
    • Ichiyo Higuchi (Poet and novelist)
    • Iida Dakotsu (Poet and Essayist)
    • Kamo no Chomei (Poet and author)
    • Minamoto no Sanetomo (3rd Kamakura shogun, poet)
    • Natsume Soseki (Novelist, poet, essayist) (Added by Shro0m)
    • Sei Shonagon (Poet and Essayist)
    • Yosano Akiko (Poet and Prose Author)
    • Yoshida Kenko (Essayist, poet)
• Poetry
  • Genres / Forms
    • Haibun (Added by Posmella)
    • Haiku (Added by Posmella)
      • kigo
    • Japanese Death Poetry
    • Makura kotoba (Added by DustBunnie)
    • Senryu (Added by Posmella)
    • Tanka
  • Japan, the Beautiful, and Myself
  • Poems
    • A Form Of No Substance
    • After a heated argument
    • Death Poem of Shoin Yoshida
    • Deep Questions
    • Dogen
      • Awake, Seeing the Peach Blossoms
      • Impermanence
      • Over the Mountains of Echizen
      • Sound
    • "Don't worry," he says
    • Endless waters rush over the falls' edge
    • Even In The Torrent's Rage
    • Fujiwara no Shunzei
      • Even Years Ago
      • Into Open Sky
      • Mourning Lady Kaga
      • That One Emotion
      • Withered Garden
    • Fujiwara no Teika
      • Frost Forms
      • Mourning Lady Kaga
      • Passing Through The Barrier of Our Eyes
      • Pulled By The Memory
      • Pulled Through Water
      • Scatter As You May
      • Sharper With Frost
      • Sign of This Floating World
      • Sound and Colour of Pines
    • I Had Always Known
    • I Keep Asking
    • i ro ha
    • Insects Weep
    • Kamo no Chomei
      • Building Houses
      • The river is ceaseless
    • Kobayashi Issa
      • Kobayashi Issa's Cat Poems
    • Kyogoku Tamekane
      • Blossoms Left Behind
      • Pulled By Moonlight
      • Suddenly Here on the Grass
      • The Colour Of His Voice
      • The Moving Storm
      • The Roof Above My Bed
      • Thoughts Are Worn Away
    • Lady Daibu
      • At Least This Kindness
      • Brightens
      • By Force Alone
      • Lady Daibu And Her Lover
      • Lady Daibu's "Flowers"
      • Meant For Her
      • Sudden Memories
      • That Morning in the Snow
      • the Promised Time
      • Wherever I Turn
    • Lady Ise
      • A Flowerless Country
      • Abstraction
      • Blossoming near a Stream
      • Boat on the Pond
      • My Depths Are Now Shallows
      • Nagara Bridge
      • Plum Mirror
      • Spring Rains Weave
      • Thought Stream
      • Thread of Pearls
      • To The Coming Spring
      • What's Ancient Enough
    • Lady Izumi
      • For Love of You
      • I Am Startled Again And Again
      • I go out of the darkness
      • My Heart Doesn't Follow My Heart
      • No Colour Called Love
      • The Mirror I Face
      • Will I cease to be
    • Matsuo Basho
      • Cicada
      • Haiku by Basho
      • Peony
      • The Second Last Day
    • Minamoto no Sanetomo
      • Caught In A Mirror
      • Foam Drifting
      • If only the world
      • Leaves Fall And Sink
    • Myoe Shonin
      • I Feel I've Melted
      • Over My Robes
      • These Turning Winds
    • On Kasuga plain
    • Ono no Komachi
      • As certain as color
      • Blasted By Autumn Winds
      • Even In Dreams
      • Flowers Faded
      • If the Current Were to Call
      • Is It That Time?
      • Since I Fell Asleep
      • Since Then, All I Do
      • Submit To You?
      • The Gone, Growing in Number
      • You Can't See It
    • Princess Shikishi
      • Fragrant Water
      • Gossip As High
      • I Sit And Then Rise
      • In My Grief
      • Is And Is Not As It Was
      • My Heart Is Thrown
      • My Thoughts To Go
      • Strange In The Dusk
      • Stream Ceases
      • That Frost Will Not Fall
      • The Mirage That Forms
      • The Moon Dims
      • This Side of the Clouds
    • Ryojin Hisho
      • Entrust A Letter
      • Lice At Play
      • Was I Born To Play?
    • Saigyo, poet and monk
      • A Cricket Cries
      • Deeper Into The Mountains
      • Dreams As Dreams
      • Flimsy As The World
      • Just How You Feel
      • Over-ripe
      • Still Hold The Moon
      • Sunlight Streams
      • The Mind's Dreaming
      • The Path Has Vanished
      • The Willow's Shade
      • To Play Hide and Seek
      • Unknown, Unliked
      • When You Said, "Remember Me"
      • Why Be Bitter?
      • Without Memories
    • Saito Sanki
      • After eating whalemeat
    • The Brightness of Your Eyes
    • The Everything Anthology of Japanese Poetry (*)
    • The Mind That Wakes
    • The Moon's Shape
    • The Scent of the Sleeve
    • Though you can tell me
    • Trying To Get It Unwound
    • Turning To The Shore
    • Umi Yukaba (Added by mauler)
    • Unfaded Patch
    • Unstrung Beads
    • What Can I Point To?
    • When You Live Alone
    • Who Is Uncertain
    • Yosano Akiko
      • Black Hair
      • Girl, Twenty
      • I Have This Delusion
      • My heart is like the sun
      • So, Call Me Again
      • To Kiyomizu
• Prose
  • Genres / Forms
    • gesaku
  • Publications / Periodicals
    • Asahi Shimbun
    • Nihon Keizai Shimbun
  • Written works
    • Bushido Shoshinshu
    • Essays in Idleness
      • A Rare Book
      • Great Abbot Pond-in-the-Hole
      • The Dew of Adashino
      • The Old Letter
    • Excerpts from the diary of Lady Murasaki Shikibu
      • Lady Murasaki Shikibu: On Children
      • Lady Murasaki Shikibu: On Faith
      • Lady Murasaki Shikibu: On Loneliness
    • hagakure
    • In Praise of Shadows (Added by Shro0m)
    • Kwaidan
    • Letters of Seiji Koga
      • Correspondence with Yashuma Neiboku
        • First letter from Seiji Koga to Yashuma Neiboku, dated 1810
        • First Letter from Yashuma Neiboku to Seiji Koga, dated 1810
        • Second Letter from Seiji Koga to Yashuma Neiboku, dated 1810
      • Letter from Seiji Koga to a supposed son of Florian Von Banier, dated 1840
      • Letter from Seiji Koga to Florian Von Banier, dated 1843
      • Letter from Seiji Koga to Kazuo Kubota, dated 1806
    • Made in Japan
    • Musashi
    • Onihei Hankachou
    • The Pillow Book (Makura no Sôshi)
    • Records of Ancient History
      • Kojiki (folk songs)
      • Manyoshu (poetry) (Added by Shro0m)
      • Nihon Shoki (a history from creation through Nara period)
    • The Book of Tea (Added by Oolong)
    • The Cup of Humanity
    • The Schools of Tea
    • Taoism and Zennism
    • The Tea-Room
    • Art Appreciation
    • Flowers
    • Tea-Masters
  • The Japan That Can Say No
  • The Tale of Genji
    • Genji's youth: The first nine chapters of The Tale of Genji
      • Chapter 1 - Kiritsubo
      • Chapter 2 - Hahakigi
      • Chapter 3 - Utsusemi
      • Chapter 4 - Yugao
      • Chapter 5 - Waka Murasaki
      • Chapter 6 - Suetsumu Hana
      • Chapter 7 - Momiji No Ga
      • Chapter 8 - Hana No En
      • Chapter 9 - Aoi
    • The Tale of Genji, an opera
  • The Tale of the Heike
    • The Bell of Gion
  • waga hai wa neko de aru