Janine Beichman

Dec 9, 2024 | nippon.com | Janine Beichman

Literatura Cultura Aunque es más conocida por su obra de ficción, Higuchi Ichiyō también fue una poeta prodigiosa. Las traducciones de ciertos pasajes de sus cuadernos privados revelan una mirada artística centrada en el amor hacia todos.

Nov 25, 2024 | nippon.com | Donald Keene |Janine Beichman

Japan’s Literary Treasures Culture Books In a collection of essays published in 2000, the literature scholar Donald Keene describes how he was driven by the desire to escape, and imagines his own death. English 日本語 简体字 繁體字 Français Español العربية Русский Known and Admired Outside Japan, Donald Keene (1922–2019) achieved international esteem as one of the leading translators, interpreters, and scholars of Japan in modern times, but he was even more widely known and admired in Japan. All his...

Jun 13, 2024 | nippon.com | Janine Beichman

Japan’s Literary Treasures Culture Language History Best known for her fiction, the modern writer Higuchi Ichiyō was also a prodigious poet. Translated selections from her private notebooks reveal an artistic outlook based on love for all. English 日本語 简体字 繁體字 Français Español العربية Русский Poetic Experiments Higuchi Ichiyō (1872–1896), one of the literary giants of Meiji Japan, is celebrated for her fiction. Many of those reading this will know her iconic short story “Takekurabe,” or...

Oct 31, 2023 | nippon.com | Janine Beichman

Japanese Classics Day celebrates the country’s classic literature on November 1 each year. The date was chosen in homage to an allusion to The Tale of Genji recorded in the diary of its author Murasaki Shikibu on what was the first day of the eleventh lunar month of 1008. The first Japanese Classics Day took place a millennium later, on November 1, 2008, and the memorial day was established by law in 2012.