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Writers and works of Japanese literature

Murasaki shikibu, also known as Zizhu (about 979- 10 16), was a female writer and songwriter in heian period. Her work Tale of Genji is regarded as the earliest novel in the world and a master of Japanese aesthetics, from which Tale of Genji was born.

Qing Yan (965 ~ 1025), whose prose "Pillow Grass" was written when she was working in the palace and after she left the palace. The work narrates what she saw and heard in court. The author comes from a middle-class aristocrat. Although this work reflects the inequality between social classes and worries about the times, it focuses on praising the empress stator and affirming the Japanese aristocratic society. Before Pillow Grass, there was already story literature and diary literature in Japan. Shao Qing Yan Na's Pillow Grass opened up a new field, and her prose laid the foundation of Japanese prose literature. Ihara Saihisa (1642 ~ 1693) was a novelist and humorous poet in the edo period in Japan. Originally known as Hirayama Fujigo, his pen name is Xihe. Osaka people. /kloc-started to learn harmony at the age of 0/5, and taught the teacher the causes of Lin School's Xishan School. At the age of 2 1, he took a nickname He Yong and became a master of Nuo.

Matsuo Bashō (1644- 1694) was a sign of a humorous teacher in the early edo period. His acknowledged achievement is to push the haiku form to the peak, but in his time, Bajiao was famous as a poet of haiku (a semi-comic couplet poem created by a group of poets).

Saemon (1653 ~ 1725) was a puppet show and kabuki playwright in the edo period. Formerly known as Sugiyama Shinsei, alias Chao Lin, Saemon near Songmen is his pen name. Born into a declining samurai family, he served as a minister when he was young. At that time, the urban people became stronger and stronger, and the handicraft industry became more and more prosperous. The dramas enjoyed by intellectuals, farmers, workers and businessmen are mainly pure glass and kabuki. Feeling the hardship of his career, Jin Song resolutely joined the ranks of despised performing artists and engaged in drama and script creation activities, which showed his determination to devote himself to civilian art. He started his writing career at the age of 25 until his death at the age of 72. * * * wrote 1 10 more pure glass dramas and 28 kabuki dramas. Among them, the earliest age is 1683, which was written by him, and the pure glass drama "The World Follow Me".

Natsume Sozaki (1867- 19 16), a modern Japanese writer, was born in a small bureaucratic family in Shimmachi, Niuyu Racecourse, Edo, and was the only son in the family. Natsume Soseki enjoys a lofty position in the history of modern Japanese literature and is called "a great national writer".

Kyouka Izumi Kyouka Izumi (1873 ~ 1939)) was a great Japanese writer in Meiji, Taisho and Showa periods. Formerly known as Kyotaro, he was born in Kanazawa City, Ishikawa Prefecture. My father was a golden eagle and ivory craftsman. Jinghua was influenced by traditional art since childhood, and was educated in missionary schools, northern foot camps and schools. When I was young, because I loved literature, I worshipped the writer Ozaki Hongye. Under the specific historical conditions of modern Japanese society, Japanese new literature developed with the growth of the whole country of Japan on the basis of inheriting the rich and colorful literary heritage of the Japanese nation and absorbing the nutrition of western literature and China classical literature.

Ryunosuke Akutagawa (1892- 1927) is a disciple of the famous Japanese writer Natsume Soseki. Japanese novelist in taisho era. He devoted himself to writing short stories. In his short life, he wrote more than 150 short stories. His short stories are short in length, novel in materials, novel in plot and even bizarre. The works pay attention to social ugliness, but rarely comment directly. They only use cold writing and concise and powerful language statements to make readers deeply feel its ugliness, thus showing its high artistic appeal. His masterpieces Rashomon and In the Bamboo Forest have become world classics. 1935, Japan established the Akutagawa Prize' Haruki Murakami (1949 65438+ 10/2-), a Japanese novelist and American literary translator. He started writing at the age of 29, and his first work, Listening to the Wind, won the Japanese group portrait newcomer award. The fifth novel, Norwegian Wood, sold 4 million copies in Japan from 65438 to 0987, which widely caused the "Murakami phenomenon". Haruki Murakami's works show a light tone whose writing style is deeply influenced by European and American writers, and there is little gloomy and heavy writing atmosphere in post-war Japan. Known as the first pure "post-World War II writer", he is also known as/kloc-0, the standard-bearer of Japanese literature in the 1980s.

Yasunari Kawabata (1899- 1972) is a famous Japanese novelist of the New Sensation School. /kloc-0 was born in osaka on June 4th, 899. His masterpieces include Dancer of Izu, Snow Country, Thousand Crane, etc. 1968 Nobel Prize in Literature. 1972 April 16 committed suicide in the studio. His parents died when he was very young, and so did his stepsister and grandparents. He is called "a celebrity who attended the funeral". He has been wandering all his life, depressed and depressed, and gradually formed a sentimental and withdrawn character. This kind of inner pain and sadness became the deep background of Kawabata Yasunari's literary shadow. When I was studying Chinese at the University of Tokyo, I participated in the second issue of New Trend of Thought magazine (the sixth time). 1924 graduated. In the same year, he became one of the core figures of the New Sensation School. After the decline of Neo-sensualism, he joined the Art Nouveau and the New Psychological Literature Movement, and wrote more than 100 novels in his life, with more short stories than long ones. His works are lyrical and pursue the lofty beauty of life, which is deeply influenced by Buddhist thought and nihilism. In the early days, many lower-class women were the protagonists of novels, writing about their purity and misfortune. Later, some works were written about the abnormal love psychology between close relatives and even the elderly, which was skillful and natural.

Kenzaburo Oe (ぉぉぇけんざぶろぅ) (1935 ~), a Japanese novelist, was born in Dasai Village, Xiduo County, Shikoku Island, Japan.

Japanese writer Kenzaburo Oe believes that "the power of poetry has created an imaginary world, in which life and myth are condensed together, depicting the confusion and anxiety of contemporary people". Kenzaburo Oe was deeply influenced by the western culture represented by Dante, Balzac, Eliot and Sartre, and "opened up a new field of postwar Japanese novels and outlined the flavor of contemporary life in an impact way", so he decided to award him Nobel Prize in Literature.

Kenzaburo Oe became the second Japanese writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 26 years.