The Modern period in Japanese literature overlaps the reigns of three Emperors: Meiji (1868-1912), Taishō (1912-1926), and early Shōwa (1926-1945). Similar to American writers, Japanese writers of the ...

Shuntaro Tanikawa, who pioneered modern Japanese poetry, poignant but conversational in its divergence from haiku and other ...

This style of game is thought to have originated in China in the 6th century and later been imported to Japan. Starting in the Meiji period, sugoroku games were ... select sugoroku during Japan’s ...

This course consists of close reading, lecture, and discussion concerning representative works of literature and drama from ancient to early modern Japan. Theoretical analysis will be integrated with ...