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

action appears aspect aware beauty become Buddhist bungaku called century changes character Chenlun Chinese classical complete concept concern considered context course critics cultural Denen developed dialects diaries discussion elements English example existence experience expressed extension fact feeling foreign function given hand hero human important interest interpretation Japan Japanese Kabuki kind language linguistic literary literature living look meaning medieval movement nature Nihon noda notion noun novel object observed original painting past perhaps period person play political position predicate present problem question reader reason refer relative clause represent result ritual seems seen semantic sense sentence social society speaker story structure style suggest Takahashi Kazumi tama term theatre things Tōkyō traditional translation trees University verb Western women writers Yu Dafu