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In Praise of Shadows (陰翳礼讃, In'ei Raisan) is a 1933 essay on Japanese aesthetics by the Japanese author Jun'ichirō Tanizaki. It was translated into English, in 1977, by the academic students of Japanese literature Thomas J. Harper and Edward Seidensticker. A new translation by Gregory Starr was published in 2017.
A video essay is an essay presented in the format of a video recording or short film rather than a conventional piece of writing; the form often overlaps with other forms of video entertainment on online platforms such as YouTube.
Isonokami Sasamegoto (Japanese: 石上私淑言, lit. ' Personal Views on Poems '), is an extended essay on Tanka poetry written in 1763 by the eighteenth century Japanese scholar Motoori Norinaga. Norinaga was one of the leading scholars in the Kokugaku (国学, lit. ' National learning ') literary movement. [1] [2]
Professor Yamashita (山下先生) instructs the foreign students on Japanese at Sakura University. He is the only teacher to regularly feature in the Genki storyline and generally serves as a straight man to the students. John Wang (ジョン・ワン) is a student from Cairns, Australia, introduced near the end of Genki I. He later becomes a ...
Otaku: Japan's Database Animals (動物化するポストモダン：オタクから見た日本社会, Dōbutsuka-suru Postmodern: Otaku kara mita Nihon Shakai) is a nonfiction essay that relates otaku culture to postmodernism. It was published by Hiroki Azuma in 2001, [1] and translated into English by the University of Minnesota Press in 2009.
Pages in category "Japanese essays" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. 0–9. 5 Pairs of Shoes; I.
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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 ...