Japanese Language Guide Blog (Page 2)

September 25, 2020

Read the information and some poems of Kokin Wakashu that was wroted by many authors.

September 25, 2020

The Manyoshu contains some of the finest love poetry within Japanese culture. It's also a wonderful document of a thriving poetic culture and the longest-surviving collection of Japanese lyric poetry.

September 25, 2020

Masoaka Shiki was one of the most representative Japanese poets. His poems, which are more than a hundred haiku, several tanka, and three kanshi, are arranged chronologically within each genre.

September 25, 2020

Matsuo Basho was one of the most famous of all Japanese poets, was born into a low-ranking samurai household in Ueno, a castle town in the ancient province of Iga and he wrote many traditional Japanese poems.

September 25, 2020

Ryokan was an itinerant monk who was especially noted as a poet and calligrapher whose poems celebrated the beauty of nature.

September 25, 2020

Sougi was a Zen monk; he represents the classical Japanese poets, his poems were written in linked verses.

September 25, 2020

Ono no Komachi, the most beautiful Japanese woman that has ever lived, is said to have been the granddaughter of State Councillor Ono no Takamura. There is a collection of poems that she wrote, they belongs to the most beautiful part of Japanese classic poems.

September 25, 2020

Read all the information related to Tale of Genji that is one of the most important works in Japan wrote by Murasaki Shikibu.

September 25, 2020

Japanese flag was used by the upper class citizens in government and samurai in battle. The national flag of Japan has the name Hinomaru, or translated to circle of the sun.