This paper attempts to analyse the technique of assimilation of classical Chinese writing into the Japanese literary tradition of the early medieval period. The author’s main focus is one of the three styles used by Japanese ...

Emperor Goshirakawa was a great lover of art. His passion for native poetry and objects of virtu as well as his involvement in collecting and increasing of treasures of Japanese culture is remarkable. This paper discusses ...

Wśród około trzydziestu pseudonimów literackich, jakimi w ciągu swojego życia posługiwał się Akutagawa Ryūnosuke, znajduje się całkowicie niejasny aliokryptonim (stanowiący po części element geonimu) Juryō Yoshi. Po raz ...

The article discusses on specific text-image interrelations in Senmen Hokekyō sasshi (Fan-shaped album of the Hokekyō Sutra), a XIIth century work restored in Shitennōji temple, Osaka. The album is famous not only because ...