What are the characteristics of Japanese literature?

1. Before modern times, most Japanese literary forms were short and pithy with simple structure. From ancient times to the present, the literature in the form of short songs is the most developed, and later it developed into chorus, homophonic, haiku, etc., which is not bad so far.

2. The literary character is slender and subtle. Japan's top-down reform since ancient times has had a far-reaching impact on literature. Before the Meiji Restoration, there were few strong social protests in Japanese literature.

3. Japan's view of literature and art is based on "truth", "sadness", "glamour" and "silence". Judging from the True Story, Mourning for Things in Heian Period, Enigma in Kamakura and Muromachi Period and Silence in Edo Period were mainly developed and refined on the basis of Wako. These theories are all related to the beautiful realm that writers yearn for.

He is good at imitation and changes quickly. After the reform of Dahua, Japan opened to Chinese mainland in an all-round way. Chinese characters, Chinese, and even China's poems and Chinese all moved to Japan intact, forming an important branch of Japanese literature-China literature. While absorbing China literature, the Japanese created variant characters, pseudonyms and mixed Chinese characters, and absorbed a large number of China characters to create literary works with unique national forms.

5. Generally speaking, Japanese literature is Leng Yan's, and its writing style is exquisite, refreshing and clean, with implicit words and obscure descriptions.

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The origin of Japanese literature

Ancient Japanese literature flourished in the eighth century, and it was not until China's Chinese characters were introduced that Japan began to have a writing system. But when the earliest Chinese characters were not suitable for writing Japanese, China's classical Chinese was the only literary form.

It was not until later that the pen name Wanye, which can be used to record Japanese, was exhibited. Pure Japanese literature records Japanese poems with a set of pronunciation of designated Chinese characters. The works created in the Nara era in Japan include 7 12 Historian's Story, 720' s Book of Japan and 759' s Leaves Collection.

At this time, Japanese used in literary creation is closer to ancient Japanese in grammar and phonology, which is obviously different from later Japanese. Even at the same time, the differences between dialects are obvious.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia-Japanese Literature