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  2. The Diary of Lady Murasaki - Wikipedia

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    Murasaki Shikibu wrote her diary at the Heian imperial court between c. 1008 – c. 1010.She is depicted here in a c. 1765 nishiki-e by Komatsuken.. The Diary of Lady Murasaki (紫式部日記, Murasaki Shikibu Nikki) is the title given to a collection of diary fragments written by the 11th-century Japanese Heian era lady-in-waiting and writer Murasaki Shikibu.

  3. Tsurezuregusa - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  4. Hiraizumi Kiyoshi - Wikipedia

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    Hiraizumi Kiyoshi (平泉 澄, 15 February 1895 – 18 February 1984) was a Japanese historian and professor of history at the Imperial University of Tokyo. He is best known for Kōkoku Shikan (皇國史観, the emperor-centred view of history) theory and was highly influential in Japanese conservative and nationalist politics.

  5. Yoshida Kenkō - Wikipedia

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    Urabe Kenkō (卜部 兼好, 1283–1350), also known as Yoshida Kenkō (吉田 兼好), or simply Kenkō (兼好), was a Japanese author and Buddhist monk. His most famous work is Tsurezuregusa (Essays in Idleness), [1] one of the most studied works of medieval Japanese literature. Kenko wrote during the early Muromachi and late Kamakura periods.

  6. Kitano Tenjin Engi Emaki - Wikipedia

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    The Kitano Tenjin Engi Emaki (北野天神縁起絵巻, "Scroll on the foundation of the Kitano temple and the life of Sugawara no Michizane", "Illuminated scroll on the history of the god of Kitano", or more simply "Legends of Kitano Tenjin Shrine") is an emakimono or emaki (painted narrative handscroll) from the beginning of the 13th century, in the Kamakura period of Japanese history (1185 ...

  7. Jōkamachi - Wikipedia

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    More and more cities were built with moats and defensive walls, the style of which is known as so-gamae (full defence perimeter), and gradually came to resemble walled cities. In the Edo period, jōkamachi served less as a military base and more as a political and economic capital for the shogunate government and domains of feudal lords .

  8. Taiheiki - Wikipedia

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    The Taiheiki (太平記) (Chronicle of Great Peace) is a medieval Japanese historical epic (see gunki monogatari) written in the late 14th century and covers the period from 1319 to 1367. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It deals primarily with the Nanboku-chō , the period of war between the Northern Court of Ashikaga Takauji in Kyoto , and the Southern Court of ...

  9. Tachikawa-ryū - Wikipedia

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    The Tachikawa-ryū (立川流) was a branch of Shingon Buddhism founded in the early 12th century by Ninkan (仁寛, died 1114), a monk of the Daigo-ji lineage of Shingon who was exiled in 1113 to the province of Izu (part of modern Shizuoka Prefecture) after being implicated in a plot to assassinate the then reigning emperor of Japan, Emperor Toba.