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Japanese Authors
YGK These Japanese Authors
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The Heian-period lady-in-waiting who authored The Tale of Genji, often called the world's first novel | Lady Murasaki Shikibu |
| The contemporary and rival of Lady Murasaki who wrote The Pillow Book | Sei Shonagon |
| The 10th-century masterpiece considered the best source of information regarding Heian court life | The Pillow Book |
| The greatest playwright of No theater and author of the samurai play Atsumori | Zeami (or Kanze Motokiyo) |
| Zeami's manual for his pupils regarding the aesthetic standards of No drama | Fushi kaden (The Transmission of the Flower of Acting Style) |
| The 17th-century master of the haiku form who wrote The Narrow Road to the Deep North | Matsuo Basho |
| The meaning of the pseudonym "Basho," taken from the name of the poet's simple hut | Cottage of the Plantain Tree |
| The professional dramatist known for puppet theater (bunraku) and the play The Battles of Coxinga | Chikamatsu Monzaemon |
| The two categories of Chikamatsu’s scripts: historical romances and domestic tragedies | Jidaimono and sewamono |
| The author of the macabre short story “Rashomon” and the suicide letter “A Note to a Certain Old Friend” | Akutagawa Ryunosuke |
| The prestigious Japanese literary prize for new writers named after the author of "In a Grove" | Akutagawa Prize |
| The first Japanese author to win the Nobel Prize for Literature (1968) | Kawabata Yasunari |
| The name Kawabata gave to his very short stories that were often only a few pages long | Palm-of-the-hand stories |
| Kawabata’s novel about an aging geisha set in a remote, snowy region of Japan | Snow Country |
| The author of Confessions of a Mask and the four-volume epic The Sea of Fertility | Mishima Yukio |
| The right-wing society organized by Mishima Yukio that stressed physical fitness and martial arts | Tate no kai |
| The Catholic Japanese author of Silence and The Samurai | Endo Shusaku |
| The recipient of the 1994 Nobel Prize for Literature and author of A Personal Matter | Oe Kenzaburo |
| The recurring theme in Oe Kenzaburo's later works, such as The Silent Cry | Experience of being the father of a brain-damaged child |
| Oe Kenzaburo's first work, which describes a friendship between a Japanese boy and a Black American POW | The Catch (or Shiiku) |
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