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    Ueda Akinari or Ueda Shūsei (上田 秋成, July 25, 1734 in Osaka – August 8, 1809 in Kyoto) was a Japanese author, scholar and waka poet, and a prominent literary...
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    first published in 1776. It is the best known work of Japanese author Ueda Akinari. Largely adapted from traditional Japanese and Chinese ghost stories...
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  • 旺成, born 1994), Japanese footballer Akinari Matsuno (松野 秋鳴, 1979–2011), Japanese light novel author Ueda Akinari (上田 秋成, 1734–1809), Japanese writer and...
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  • to Lane, "the last important ukiyo-zōshi was written by Akinari." An Osaka native, Ueda Akinari mainly wrote supernatural tales later in life, but at the...
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    from Ueda Akinari's 1776 book Ugetsu Monogatari, combining elements of the jidaigeki (period drama) genre with a ghost story. Drawing from Ueda's tales...
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  • was satirized in the story "The Destiny That Spanned Two Lifetimes" by Ueda Akinari, in which such a monk was found centuries later and resuscitated. The...
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    in the post-publication "Preface" to Shank's Mare (1802 et seq), and Ueda Akinari who had a homosexual Buddhist monk in Tales of Moonlight and Rain (1776)...
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  • Suikoden (水滸伝, Water Margin). Two yomihon masterpieces were written by Ueda Akinari (1734–1809): Ugetsu Monogatari and Harusame Monogatari. Kyokutei Bakin...
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  • surname include: Ai Ueda (上田藍, born 1983), professional triathlete Akinari Ueda (1734–1809), Japanese author, scholar and waka poet Akira Ueda (上田 晃, born 1970)...
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  • Spring Rain") is the second famous collection of Japanese stories by Ueda Akinari after the Ugetsu Monogatari ("Tales of Moonlight and Rain"). The collection...
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  • Asai Ryoi (1666) Ugetsu Monogatari (Tales of Moonlight and Rain) by Ueda Akinari (1776) The word was popularised in English by Lafcadio Hearn in his book...
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  • on the eighteenth-century story "The Carp That Came to My Dream," by Ueda Akinari, in which a priest is transformed into a carp for three days before eventually...
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  • in developing the yomihon. Another early pioneer of the yomihon was Ueda Akinari, with his Ugetsu Monogatari and Harusame Monogatari. Kyokutei Bakin wrote...
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    and A Serpent's Lust (1923) (based on the story of the same title by Ueda Akinari, which was, in part, the inspiration for Mizoguchi Kenji's 1953 masterpiece...
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    (1180–1239) Kamo no Chōmei (1155–1216) Motoori Norinaga (1730–1801) Ueda Akinari (1734–1809) Ryōkan (1758–1831) Princess Kazu (1846–1877) Emperor Meiji...
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    of the eighteenth century, the painter Kimura Kenkadō and the writer Ueda Akinari extended the consumption of tea, but with greater emphasis on the veneration...
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  • Taseko [ja] Shimazaki Masaki Tsunoda Tadayuki Nakane Kōtei Yamakuni Hyōbu Ueda Akinari Date Munehiro Fujitani Mitsue [ja] Tachibana Moribe [ja] Tomobayashi...
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  • Kingdoms and Shui hu zhuan. Two yomihon masterpieces were written by Ueda Akinari: Ugetsu monogatari and Harusame monogatari. Literature portal 16th century...
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  • humans and human corpses. A similar story can be found as "Aozukin" in Ueda Akinari's Ugetsu Monogatari from 1776. It is said that there was a monk/priest...
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    dictated the final parts to his daughter-in-law Michi Tokimura. Along with Ueda Akinari's Ugetsu Monogatari, it is considered a masterpiece of gesaku literature...
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    1819) May 23 – Franz Mesmer, Austrian physician (d. 1815) July 25 – Ueda Akinari, Japanese author and scholar (d. 1809) August 10 – Naungdawgyi, Burmese...
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  • fortunes within folk society, especially for old homes and families. In Ueda Akinari's late Edo-period yomihon the Ugetsu Monogatari, in the story "Hinpuku-ron"...
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  • studies that suggest that Genzo may have been a tonkori. In addition, Ueda Akinari, a Japanese scholar of the mid-Edo period, painted a self-portrait of...
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    ). Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. pp. 86–87. ISBN 978-1442239111. Ueda, Akinari (6 August 2012). Zolbrod, Leon M. (ed.). Ugetsu Monogatari or Tales...
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    July 22 – Jean Senebier, Swiss pastor, botanist (b. 1742) August 8 – Ueda Akinari, Japanese author, scholar (b. 1734) August 18 – Matthew Boulton, English...
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  • Monogatari or Tales of Moonlight and Rain, a collection of stories by Ueda Akinari on which the film is based Ugetsu (album), a 1963 jazz recording by Art...
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  • film's musical score to be memorable. The House in the Reeds, a story by Ueda Akinari with similar plotline Castle in the Sky, another 1986 anime film with...
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    on a short story by Srikanth titled The Shrine, and was inspired by Ueda Akinari's Harusame Monogatari. The release of this film coincided with ten years...
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  • noodles (ja) Harusame, painting by Kawai Gyokudō Harusame Monogatari by Ueda Akinari Harusame, a traditional hauta (ja:端唄(はうた)), a form of jiuta tune Harusame...
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    first published 1776: Ugetsu Monogatari (Tales of Moonlight and Rain) by Ueda Akinari 1776: The Wealth of Nations, foundation of the modern theory of economy...
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