1,000 Years of Japanese Literature: Cries of Loneliness?
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Japan is one of the most unique countries in the world, considered one of the safest, cleanest and most organized countries in the world.
But what is Japanese literature like? What makes Japanese literature so unique? What are some of the most important themes in Japanese literature? And who are some of the greatest Japanese writers.
In this video I’ll answer all these questions and more by looking at 1,000 years of Japanese literature.
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I'm a Japanese high school student. Nowadays in japan, I feel like we don't have opportunity to learn about Japanese traditional culture in detail like this even we living as japanese. Thank you so much for make such a wonderful program!(I'm sorry for my poor English
It's your duty to learn about your culture and history and make it known around the world, this is the meaning of being original and creative. The fact that you raised the question at such a young age proves that you are on the right path ❤
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Thank you❤️I'll study hard to understand about our culture more deeply.
are there any people who are history freaks at school? in the usa there are usually a few people who are very interested in history and a few who are very pro-usa usually from military families who sometimes know a bit about history. is there anything similar in japan?
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In the case of my school,I don't feel like there are many frends are crazy about history.
in japan as a whole,some people like learning history as a hobby.on the other hand,there're many people study hard to pass some kind of exams.People who loves history and want to study about Japanese classical literature sometimes go to college and study it.(I'm studying English now,and i'm sorry I can't explain well in English.
@@haniko-mk6lb you explained it perfectly. so there’s really no extra time to just enjoy studying history because of how much work you have to do that’s a pity
The theme of solitude in Japanese literature can provide some cultural context for the period of Sakoku, when Japan isolated itself from the rest of the world from the 17th to the mid-19th century. I like when you explain how Literature and storytelling shapes the mindset and consciousness of a nation and thereby impacts on its culture and even religion. We are apparently nothing more than storytellers. The persians have the culture of crying and weeping. They cry and wail for every martyr. This can be traced to their cultural past and literature. I hope you can do for other nations about the connection between literature and culture (i.e. Russia, France, Germany, etc).
japan isolate themselves? they go in and out europe as early as 16th, they only isolate themselves from global south.
Primo, deluxe. You've out done yourself with this survey of Japanese literature. Thank you for this very informative offering
Thanks for this wonderful program ❤
I’m amazed. No one would believe me if I told them that this was not made by someone who has studied Japanese literature for decades! I was sad that Tanizaki wasn't there, but he was mentioned at the end, so that's good. It was also good that you talked about haiku.
Dazai has always been my favourite. I can't get enough of his self-deprecating humour and honesty. These days, however, I prefer Tanizaki. In one of Tanizaki’s essays he said that the beauty of Japanese expressions is that they say only half of a thing, leaving the rest to the imagination. It was only as an adult that I came to appreciate Kawabata's works, and one of the reasons why Mishima and Murakami are so popular abroad may be that they wrote on the assumption that they would be translated?
(As for the almost complete absence of descriptions of food in The Tale of Genji, the fish available in Kyoto in the Heian period was dried or salted freshwater fish, and the occasional animal meat was also dried, basically a diet of rice to fill you up, and sugar was a precious commodity, so very frugal compared to today.)
My deepest respect and thanks to you!
Reply to self. My favourite novel of all time is I am a Cat. I don't know how many times I've read it in my life.
You make the best analysis videos 😭‼️
Fiction Beast always makes the best videos
OMG cant wait to watch this ...big fan of you
Been following your content and watching your videos for past months. Never found a channel more relatable than yours...
Thank you for reading.
Alas, I could mark thumps up only once!!
Love this, and will be looking for books now
Thank you .
Thank you, Fiction Beast.
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NO PUEDO ESPERAR AL FINAL....TENGO QUE EXPRESAR MI AGRADECIMIENTO .....As always, masterful presentation and beautiful dissemination of knowledge... the sweetest beast of the Anglosphere... (the day it immerses itself in Spanish literature will be an epiphany...)
This is phenomenal.
I so enjoy your lectures❤😍🙏
I hope someone told you that you are a beautiful person Fiction Beast. I never read Tales of Genji but I love it when you talk about it. ❤
Thanks!
I havent watched this yet but I have to say thank you. There's something about Japanese lit - be it the clsssics or contemp - that just speaks to me.
I am a big fan of "Fiction of Beast".
This japanese story is Well Done.... Brilliant!!
I have lived out side of my mother country Japan much longer than I lived there.
More I think about my japanesque in me...makes me very proud of my country.
I wish feels the same among young people in Japan.
I love the work of Sayaka Murata - "Convenience Store Woman" was excellent.
The first book I read was The Tale of Genji. There was a point in my otaku phase I wanted to have a more mature conversation with Japanese art and literature. So I started with history, later reading complex manga in the seinen category- finally arriving in literature. I want to read more modern works that is not as conscious of the Western gaze. And this video lecture was a wonder introduction to start. Thank you.
Solitude is present in Chinese and Urdu literature. And even in Russian literautre afaik.
Wow!
Can you make one for french intellectuals
Answering my own question a little, our ancestors suffered things that we didnt have to so it just carrys on through the future subtly but surely!
Do you think the more people focus on the subject, pain and suffering, the more we evolve it to have some kind of cure?
Which chapter talks about Genji’s failed deal with Spotify?
It's too small a detail but Mishima didn't have TB, he just happened to have a cold that day and the military doctor misdiagnosed it, according to Donald Keene. That's how frail he was, I suppose.
I would like to learn about the culture, history, religion & philosophies (like Shinto) of Japan.
Can you please recommend books for me as a beginner?
The Chrysanthemum and the Sword by Ruth Benedict
...German knife? never heard before.
Based 2h videos
I wonder how many hours gone be ?
nice
Thanks
@@Fiction_BeastCan u cover a novel called Paul and Virginia it's a French novel by Bernardin de Saint-Pierre its basically a french romeo and juliet or I call it romeo and juliet of the 18th century and can u do heer ranja the one of waris shah I heard about it from my dad. I would love to see Punjab love stories more also indian novels too.
Dazai's novel is about something much broader than the dropping of the atomic bombs and even defeat in WWII. His darkness preceded those events by at least a decade, and so could not be the result of them.
Thank You this was a incresiblely interesting episode. I would love to hear about any modern Japanese women writers ?
Yoko Ogawa might be worth checking out
Why is the sex of a writer important if they write good literature?
@@candide1065 facts my man Max Stirner
Although I'm Japanese, I seldom have interest in Japanese contemporary literature.
Sir, could you please do one video on Indian
literature.❤
the Japanese people should break free from American occupation and join the free world led by Russia
Okay
Lol
@@waffle.23 Schopenhauer was a dark philosopher
@@to9362 he knew what was up
@@waffle.23 What did he know?
Nani?! 😂
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Amazing content.....exceptionally well done. Have read ''I am a cat'', & ''No longer human''--- but learned much while being entertained.....cheers to you FB!! Always have respected and felt as if I could relate to common themes in Japan.....simplistic/to the point thought + nature/solitude/contemplation of existence/not belonging to modern times......many thanks.
"Japan is one of the most unique countries in the world, considered one of the safest, cleanest and most organized countries in the world. " Not really. Japan is overrated on several points
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This is Wonderful Amazing Tale of Japanese. I remember Many Many Wearls Vapanese Radios were EVERYWHERE in USA people everywhere had Japan Transsiter Radios On There Ears! Peoples in America hated Japanese people and a Industrl City change Name to "USA so their Tansister Radios said Mane in USA, not Made in Japan. Even NOW chinese Radios and Systims of High FY Units cost Maney Hundredes Dllors. Zapanese Made are Very Expensive on Sellers like PayPal and what ever the Sellers of those I cannot remember od compny BEFORE