Research topic: Japanese literature

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Japanese literature

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Japanese literature literary works produced in the language of the islands of Japan . See also Asian drama . Earliest Writings Although Japanese and Chinese are different languages, the Japanese borrowed and adapted Chinese ideographs early in the 8th cent. in order to render their spoken language in written form. Because Japanese is better suited to phonetic transcription, the result is a language of extremely complicated linguistic construction. In 712 the new writing system was used in the compilation of orally preserved poems and stories into the Kojiki [records of... Read more
Japanese literature
Japanese literature Earliest extant works are the Kojiki...phonetically. The earliest recorded Japanese poetry is in the Manyoshu (760), which...Tokugawa Period (1603–1868) literature, once the preserve of the aristocracy...Period, foreign contacts and Western literature had a major ... Read more
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...do not completely fill the needs of the inflected Japanese language in the sphere of writing. In the 8th cent...kana, were therefore devised for the recording of the Japanese language. They are used along with the ideographic...alphabet has also been used increasingly to transcribe Japanese. Since ... Read more

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