Japanese Literature - K. Degenion

INSTRUCTIONS: Write the correct term or phrase that corresponds to the description of each item. Ensure your answers are concise and follows proper capitalization. Examples of how you should answer each question in terms of capitalization will be provided.

1. This period is widely considered a golden age of Japanese culture, particularly in the fields of art and literature. Notable works from this era include The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu.

ex. Marcos Period

2. This era in Japanese literary history is characterized by an increasing literacy rate among the expanding urban population, along with the emergence of lending libraries.

 

ex. Marcos Period

This classical Japanese literary work, often regarded as the world’s first novel, intricately depicts the life and romantic exploits of an aristocratic figure at the Heian court.

ex. The Scent of Apples

This dystopian novel, written by a Nobel Prize-winning Japanese-British author, explores themes of memory, identity, and the ethics of human cloning through the lives of students at a mysterious boarding school.

In haiku poetry, allusions to the past and narrative content are not significant because it concerns the pure present, also known as the______.

 

A traditional haiku captures the essence of a specific time of year through the use of distinct words. This makes haiku a poem of a _____.

INSTRUCTIONS: Identify the season when the following haikus were written.

ex. autumn