What are the characteristics of Japanese literature?

1. Before modern times, most Japanese literary forms were short and pithy with simple structure. From ancient times to the present, the literature in the form of short songs is the most developed, and later it developed into couplet, homophonic, haiku and so on. , has never failed so far.

2. The literary character is slender and subtle. Japan's top-down reform since ancient times has had a far-reaching impact on literature. Before the Meiji Restoration, there were few strong social protests in Japanese literature.

3. Japan's view of literature and art is based on "truth", "sadness", "glamour" and "silence". Judging from the True Story, Mourning for Things in Heian Period, Enigma in Kamakura and Muromachi Period and Silence in Edo Period were mainly developed and refined on the basis of Wako. These theories are all related to the beautiful realm that writers yearn for.

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Ancient Japanese recorded their lives in the form of diaries, forming a unique literary genre: diary literature. Diaries are mostly based on memos of daily song creation, with similar tendency to recall records and stories, and are mostly literary works of reviewing life and self-reflection.

JiGuanZhi's Diary of Tosa is the earliest Japanese diary literature, followed by Diary of Subdivision, Diary of Dragonfly, Diary of Ji Geng, Diary of Izayoi and Moon. From these diary documents, we can understand the social customs at that time, which is an important way to understand ancient Japanese society.

Diary literature has developed into a new literary genre in modern times, and private novels (also known as mood novels) occupy an important position in modern Japanese literary world. This type of writers discovered the dark reality of daily life and described their lonely feelings. The Sad Father written by Yoshizawa Kasai, The Age of Neuropathy written by Hirozu Hirozu and The World of Suffering written by Uno Koji are all masterpieces of private novels.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia-Japanese Literature