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Japanese Literature – The Very Short Introductions Podcast – Episode 70

The Very Short Introductions Podcast

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The Influence of Buddhism on Japanese Literature

The Tale of Genji was written by a woman, Murasaki Shiki Bu, in the 11th century. This tradition of women's writing continues into the modern period. For centuries that place was China through Buddhism but also through Chinese literary forms and poetic forms. Then with the massive reading by Japanese writers and thinkers of European and American literature thought, poetry, philosophy, etc.

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