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Re-creating the life of a 17th-century concubine
Kyōto :: Japan | 24 days ago
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Rowley notes in the preface to her lovingly researched, elegantly written study of Imperial concubine Nakanoin Nakako, the history of her subject's period, the late 16th and early 17th centuries, has traditionally been written as the history of men.
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‘The Tale of the Heike,' Translated by Royall Tyler
Kyōto :: Japan | 5 months ago
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January 4, 2013 Encountering Homer in a vivid translation made Keats feel like an astonished astronomer watching a new planet swim into view. Readers unfamiliar with medieval Japanese literature and that must mean most of us may feel a kindred
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Translation tales
Guangzhou :: China | 7 months ago
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Lin Wen-yueh, a prominent Japanese-Chinese translator from Taiwan, is coming to Guangzhou on Oct 21 to share her experiences in translating The Tale of Genji, a world-renowned Japanese classical literature. Written by a noblewoman named Murasaki
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Famed 'Genji' gets first Italian translation
Rome :: Italy | 11 months ago
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An Italian academic has translated an entire version of "Genji Monogatari" ("The Tale of Genji"), one of Japan's foremost literary classics, into Italian for the first time. Maria Teresa Orsi, a former professor at the University of Rome and an
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Sakura: Soul of Japan
Sakura :: Japan | 1 year ago
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Special to The Japan Times "If I were asked to explain the Japanese spirit, I would say it is wild cherry blossoms glowing in the morning sun!" Motoori Norinaga (1730-1801), nativist thinker and poet The cherry blossom is not just another pretty
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Art Review: ‘Storytelling in Japanese Art’ at the Met - Review
Kamakura :: Japan | over 1 year ago
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It has been organized by Masako Watanabe, a senior research associate in the Met's Asian art department, and while installed in the museum's Japanese permanent-collection galleries, it is a temporary show full of significant loans. Illuminating the
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"Kyuyo Ishikawa: Calligraphy, Sake Drinking Ware and The Tale of Genji"
Shanghai :: China | almost 2 years ago
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Calligraphy, Sake Drinking Ware and The Tale of Genji" Museum of Arts & Crafts, Itami, and Itami City Museum of Art Fukui Prefecture native Kyuyo Ishikawa (b...His "Sakazuki Senjimon" series comprises 1,000 sake drinking cups, on which he wrote each
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Weatherwatch: A storm gives warning before it starts to blow
Tōkyō :: Japan | almost 2 years ago
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Also he wants to see the sea. "Suddenly, the wind began to blow, and the sky darkened...Such a downpour followed that in the commotion the departing gentlemen could not even put up their umbrellas," reports the novelist Murasaki Shikibu, in Royall
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City Room: Columbia Professor's Retirement Is Big News in Japan
Tōkyō :: Japan | 2 years ago
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Ozier Muhammad/The New York Times Donald Keene, a Japanese literature expert, led his final class at Columbia on Tuesday. The spring semester is ending at Columbia University and work crews on Tuesday were busy sprucing up the campus and preparing
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National › Columbia Prof Keene to move to Japan permanently
Tōkyō :: Japan | 2 years ago
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Donald Keene, a prominent scholar of Japanese literature at Columbia University, has decided to move permanently to Japan after delivering his final lecture at the university later this month, sources close to him say. The 88-year-old professor
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