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The provenance of the term is ultimately Chinese, zuihitsu being the Sino-Japanese reading of 随筆 (Mandarin: suíbǐ), the native reading of which is fude ni shitagau ("follow the brush"). [ 1 ] [ dubious – discuss ] Thus works of the genre should be considered not as traditionally planned literary pieces but rather as casual or randomly ...
info.yomiuri.co.jp /contest /clspgl /bungaku.html The Yomiuri Prize for Literature ( 読売文学賞 , Yomiuri Bungaku Shō ) is a literary award in Japan. The prize was founded in 1949 by the Yomiuri Shimbun Company to help form a "strong cultural nation".
Elements common to uta-awase were a sponsor; two sides of contestants (方人, kataudo), the Left and the Right, the former having precedence, and usually the poets; [clarification needed] a series of rounds (番, ban) in which a poem from each side was matched; a judge (判者, hanja) who declared a victory (勝, katsu) or a draw (持, ji), and might add comments (判詞, hanshi); and the ...
Japanese essays (1 C, 2 P) Japanese literature by medium (11 C) ... Pages in category "Japanese literature" The following 77 pages are in this category, out of 77 ...
Also apophthegm. A terse, pithy saying, akin to a proverb, maxim, or aphorism. aposiopesis A rhetorical device in which speech is broken off abruptly and the sentence is left unfinished. apostrophe A figure of speech in which a speaker breaks off from addressing the audience (e.g., in a play) and directs speech to a third party such as an opposing litigant or some other individual, sometimes ...
1 Note: From 1979 to 1988, only a single translation prize was given annually. Beginning in 1989, the prize was given in two categories: translations from Japanese classical literature and translation from Japanese modern literature (although such distinctions vary as does the number of winners in a given year).
The Gunzo New Writers' Prize (群像新人文学賞, Gunzō Shinjin Bungakushō) is an annual literary prize awarded by Japanese literary magazine Gunzo, published by Kodansha. It was established in 1958 with two categories, one for novels and one for commentary.
Tsurezuregusa (徒然草, Essays in Idleness, also known as The Harvest of Leisure) is a collection of essays written by the Japanese monk Kenkō (兼好) between 1330 and 1332. The work is widely considered a gem of medieval Japanese literature and one of the three representative works of the zuihitsu genre, along with The Pillow Book and the ...