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Authors
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Author of the Tale of Genji (Genji monogatari), the first known novel | Murasaki |
| Lady __________ Shikibu | Murasaki |
| Author of the diary Murasaki Shikibu nikki | Murasaki |
| Author of a collection of tanka poems | Murasaki |
| Daughter of the court official Fujiwara Tametoki | Murasaki |
| She sat in on the classical Chinese literature lessons that her brother received, in spite of the Heian traditions against higher education for women | Murasaki |
| __ Shonagon | Sei |
| Only major work is the Pillow Book (Makura no soshi), which is considered the best source of information about life at the Japanese court during the Heian period (784–1185) | Sei |
| Rival of Murasaki | Sei |
| Rival of Sei | Murasaki |
| Also called Kanze Motokiyo | Zeami |
| Second master of the Kanze theatrical school | Zeami |
| Greatest playwright of the No theater | Zeami |
| He revised the works of his father Kan’ami, such as Wind in the Pines | Zeami |
| Wrote a number of his own dramas, including the samurai play Atsumori | Zeami |
| Also a drama critic, he established the aesthetic standards by which plays have been judged ever since | Zeami |
| His Fushi kaden (The Transmission of the Flower of Acting Style) is a manual for his pupils | Zeami |
| ______ Basho | Matsuo |
| pseudonym of ______ Munefusa | Matsuo |
| Generally acknowledged as the master of the haiku form | Matsuo |
| the most notable influences on his work were Zen Buddhism and his travels throughout Japan | Matsuo |
| He is noted for works like The Narrow Road to the Deep North (Oku no hosomichi), which includes descriptions of local sights in both prose and haiku | Matsuo |
| He took his pseudonym from the name of the simple hut where he retired: Basho-an, which means “Cottage of the Plaintain Tree.” | Matsuo |
| He was one of Japan’s first professional dramatists | Chikamatsu |
| Originally named Sugimori Nobumori | Chikamatsu |
| Wrote more than 150 plays for both the bunraku (puppet theater) and the kabuki (popular theater) | Chikamasu |
| His scripts fall into two categories: historical romances (jidaimono) and domestic tragedies (sewamono) | Chikamatsu |
| One of his most popular plays was The Battles of Coxinga, an historical melodrama about an attempt to re-establish the Ming dynasty in China | Chikamatsu |
| He is also largely responsible for developing the sewamono (contemporary drama on contemporary themes) in the joruri, a style of chanted narration adapted to bunraku | Chikamatsu |
| His mother died insane while he was a child, and his father was a failure who gave him up to relatives | Akutagawa |
| His 1915 short story “Rashomon” brought him into the highest literary circles and started him writing the macabre stories for which he is known | Akutagawa |
| In 1927 he committed suicide by overdosing on pills, and his suicide letter “A Note to a Certain Old Friend” became a published work | Akutagawa |
| A movie was made based off his work "Rashomon" in 1951 | Akutagawa |
| One of Japan’s two most prestigious literary prizes is named for him; it is awarded for the best serious work of fiction by a new Japanese writer. | Akutagawa |
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