Rethinking Japan Vol 1.: Literature, Visual Arts & Linguistics

Abe Kobo adjective aesthetic artistic aspect Buddhist century Chenlun Chinese classical concept contemporary context critics cultural Dafu’s Denen no yiiutsu desu dialects diaries Duret English example expressed fact foreign function gaki Genji Heian hero Hokusai hungry ghost Impressionist irony Iwanami Shoten Japan Japanese language Japanese literature Kabuki kara kare koto lexical linguistic literary meaning medieval Meiji modern Japanese mono Monogatari morphex movement Nanqian naru Natsume Soseki nature Nihon Shoki Nihongo noda noun one’s Osanai Kaoru painting past poem political predicate present problems protagonist refer relative clause ritual s.th Sato Sato Haruo Sato’s semantic sentence Shingeki Shinkokinshu shite shobo sleeves social novel society Soseki Sosuke speaker story style suru Ta-fu Takahashi Kazumi Tale of Genji tama theatre Tokyo traditional tragedy translation trees ukiyo-e University verbs of motion Western women word systems writers Yu Dafu zenshu