• Zuihitsu (随筆) is a genre of Japanese literature consisting of loosely connected personal essays and fragmented ideas that typically respond to the author's...
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    Hōjōki (section Zuihitsu)
    located at Mt. Hino. The work has been classified both as belonging to the zuihitsu genre and as Buddhist literature. Now considered as a Japanese literary...
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    to as the zuihitsu genre. Other major works from the same period include Kamo no Chōmei's Hōjōki and Yoshida Kenkō's Tsurezuregusa. Zuihitsu rose to mainstream...
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    medieval Japanese literature and one of the three representative works of the zuihitsu genre, along with The Pillow Book and the Hōjōki. Essays in Idleness comprises...
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    turtle with flowing tail (mino game). Depiction of him riding a turtle appeared quite late, in the early 18th century. —Ogata Gekkō, Gekkō zuihitsu (1887)....
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    considered to be of the highest rank of foxes, and in the essays "Zen'an Zuihitsu (善庵随筆)" and "Hokusō Sadan (北窓瑣談)", the foxes are ranked in the order of...
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    Prefecture), according to Asakawa Zen'an [ja] who wrote the essay Zen'an zuihitsu. According to some sources the kuda-gitsune ("pipe fox" or "tube fox")...
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    diary, 1828, here called "dotaku/dodaku"; Item ⑥ "Kutabe", from Hirokata zuihitsu Book 60 (『弘賢随筆』第六十冊), Boar Year (prob. 1827) Item ⑦ "Ryūkō kudabe [the...
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    in Europe with a genre of essays known as zuihitsu—loosely connected essays and fragmented ideas. Zuihitsu have existed since almost the beginnings of...
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    during her years in the court, a miscellaneous genre of writing known as zuihitsu. Shōnagon's essays describe the various daily experiences and customs of...
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    (1952–1956) Hyakkien Zuihitsu (百鬼園隨筆) (1933) Manuke no Jitsuzai ni Kansuru Bunken (間抜けの實在に關する文獻) (1933) Zoku Hyakkien Zuihitsu (續百鬼園隨筆) (1934) Daihinchō...
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    developed that cats should not be kept for long periods. In the "Ansai Zuihitsu (安斎随筆)" the courtier Sadatake Ise stated, "A cat that is several years...
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    creatures known to kill humans in water by Asakawa Zen'an [ja]'s essay Zen'an zuihitsu and conjectured that there used to be lore where sacred snakes which were...
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    A Memento of the Season". The Columbia anthology of Japanese essays : Zuihitsu from the Tenth to the Twenty-first Century. Translated by Carter, Steven...
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  • This is a list of texts written in classical Japanese, grouped by genres and in chronological order. Sangyō Gisho Shōmangyō Gisho (611) Yuimagyō Gisho...
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    friendship, and other abstract concepts. The work was written in the zuihitsu ("follow-the-brush") style, a type of stream-of-consciousness writing that...
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    Japanese forms, such as zuihitsu in her poetry collection, The Narrow Road to the Interior: "The Japanese view it [zuihitsu]as a distinct genre, although...
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    documents about Utsuro-bune sightings in Japan, for example 'Hirokata Zuihitsu' (弘賢随筆) that describes an "utsuro-bune" docking at Toyohashi in "May of...
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  • Morita for three days and three nights. He became a respected author of zuihitsu, a form of contemplative personal essay. His writings focused on promoting...
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  • awakens his true identity." Sections from The Pillow Book, a collection of zuihitsu, have been anthologized in Starry Island: New Writing from Singapore. The...
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    Iwanami shoten. ISBN 978-4-00-240203-1. Nakayama, Tadayoshi (1670). Daigo zuihitsu 醍醐随筆 (in Japanese). 恕翁 (1749). 虚実雑談集 (in Japanese). Hearn, Lafcadio (1901)...
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  • (2): 130 Akatsuki, Kanenari [in Japanese] (2007), "雲錦随筆 (Unkin zuihitsu)", Nihon zuihitsu taisei 日本隨筆大成 (in Japanese), Yoshikawa Kobunkan, p. 133 Shida...
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    1930–1938 – Waves: A War Diary Shigotobeya, 1931 Kawa, 1931–1932 – The River Zuihitsu, 1933 Keirokushu, 1936 – Miscellany Jon Manjiro Hyoryuki [jp], 1937 – John...
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    Gerald (2018-11-30). The Land We Saw, the Times We Knew: An Anthology of Zuihitsu Writing from Early Modern Japan. University of Hawaii Press. p. 323....
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    [Japanese Essay Collection: The Third Period, Volume 7] (in Japanese). Nihon Zuihitsu Taisei Publishing Association. pp. 204–205. doi:10.11501/1914201. 新薩藩叢書...
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    in this period, including Mizu Kagami and the Gukanshō. Essays called zuihitsu came to prominence with Hōjōki by Kamo no Chōmei and Tsurezuregusa by Kenkō...
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    : 47–50  Another category of his letters follow the genres of Japanese zuihitsu, lyrical and loosely organized essays that combine personal reflection...
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  • appreciate more than the minimum standard as a novel. — Seichō Matsumoto. Zuihitsu Kuroi Techō (Essays on the Mystery Novel). 1961. pp.18 - 25. Ellery, the...
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  • Retrieved 2015-10-24. Terajima, Ryōan (1994). Wakan Sansaizue. Tokyo: Nihon Zuihitsu Taisei Kankōkai. Yoda, Hiroko; Alt, Matt (2008). Yokai Attack! : the Japanese...
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    strategized to marry a rich person's daughter is recorded in the Shinkoku Gudo Zuihitsu of the Edo period. Other documents record similar tales: As a result of...
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