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Japanese Authors
some japanese authors
Question | Answer |
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Tanka poems Tale of Genji | Murasaki Shikibu |
Pillow Book | Sei Shonagan |
Noh drama Atsumori The Robe of Feathers Birds of Sorrow Wind in the Pines The Transmission of the Flower of Acting Style | Zeami |
master of haikus The Narrow Road to the Deep North | Matsuo Basho |
wrote bunraku (puppet theater) and kabuki (popular theater) The Battles of Coxinga developed the sewamono (contemporary themes) in the joruri (chanted narration) | Chikamatsu Monzaemon |
Rashomon In a Grove The Old Potter's Tale The Spider's Thread A Note to a Certain old Friend (suicide note) | Akutagawa Ryunosuke |
The Sound of the Mountain Thousand Cranes Snow Country The Master of Go | Kawabata Yasunari |
The Sailor who fell From Grace with the Sea The Sea of Fertility Confessions of a Mask Temple of Dawn The Decay of the Angel organized the Tate no Kai- a right wing society, tried to incite military coup, failed, committed suicide | Mishima Yukio |
White Man Yellow Man The Samurai Silence | Endo Shusaku |
The Catch in the Shadow of the Sunrise Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids The Silent Cry Teach us to Outgrow our Madness A Personal Matter | Oe Kenzaburo |