Japanese

Japanese literature across classical and modern writing, fiction, travel, poetry, religious texts, exact source-language editions, and historically mediated translations.

Folders

  • Ainu (2)
  • Art and Aesthetics (1)
  • Drama (1)
  • FolkloreJapanese folklore, ghost-tales, and the study of the uncanny. (4)
  • Modern FictionModern Japanese fiction in exact, edition-aware source-language and historical translation witnesses, beginning with Natsume Sōseki's complete Kokoro. (1)
  • OomotoTexts and reader guides for Ōmoto, the Japanese new religion of Deguchi Nao and Deguchi Onisaburō — revelation, world reconstruction, spirit journeys, art, Esperanto, and the vast untranslated scriptural corpus behind the Reikai Monogatari. (3)
  • Poetry (1)
  • Religious HistoryStudies and classics of Japanese religion, thought, and culture. (6)
  • TenrikyoGood Works Translations and public-domain historical witnesses for Tenrikyo, the Japanese new religion founded by Nakayama Miki, centered on the Joyous Life and the Three Scriptures: the Ofudesaki, the Mikagura-uta, and the Osashizu. (6)

Pages

  • GlossaryA shelf-specific glossary starter for the Japanese shelf.
  • Hōjōki — An Account of My HutKamo no Chōmei's meditation on impermanence, written in 1212 at his ten-foot-square hermitage on Mount Hino. One of the three great zuihitsu of Japanese literature.
  • Introduction to Japanese LiteratureA reader-centered introduction to Japanese literature across language, script, period, genre, region, empire, minority relations, translation, and exact digital editions.
  • Introduction to Japanese Religious LiteratureA source-critical public introduction to the Japanese religious literature shelf, centered on Hojoki, Oku no Hosomichi, impermanence, sacred travel, and the older entanglement of kami and buddhas.
  • Oku no Hosomichi — Matsuo BashoMatsuo Basho's masterwork of haibun — a prose-and-poetry travel journal of his 1689 journey through northern Japan, with over fifty embedded haiku.
  • Reader's Guide to JapaneseReading routes through the Japanese shelf's literature, exact editions, Tenrikyo and Oomoto materials, Ainu narratives, folklore retellings, and historical religious witnesses.