• The classical Japanese language (文語, bungo, "literary language"), also called "old writing" (古文, kobun) and sometimes simply called "Medieval Japanese",...
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    Japanese traditional dance describes a number of Japanese dance styles with a long history and prescribed method of performance. Some of the oldest forms...
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  • until 1185. The Heian period is considered a golden age of classical Japanese culture. Japanese religious life from this time and onwards was a mix of native...
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    Japanese poetry is poetry typical of Japan, or written, spoken, or chanted in the Japanese language, which includes Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese...
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  • This is a list of texts written in classical Japanese, grouped by genres and in chronological order. Sangyō Gisho Shōmangyō Gisho (611) Yuimagyō Gisho...
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  • Early texts were often written in pure Classical Chinese or lit. 'Chinese writing' (漢文, kanbun), a Chinese-Japanese creole language. Indian literature also...
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    Japanese (日本語, Nihongo, [ɲihoŋɡo] ) is the principal language of the Japonic language family spoken by the Japanese people. It has around 123 million...
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  • Language extends the list to include classical Chinese, Arabic, and Sanskrit: When we realize that an educated Japanese can hardly frame a single literary...
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  • Gagaku (雅楽, lit. "elegant music") is a type of Japanese classical music that was historically used for imperial court music and dances. Gagaku was developed...
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  • misunderstood to be the only irregular verbs in Japanese. However, there are about a dozen irregular verbs in Japanese, depending on how one counts. The other...
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  • as Japanese traditional dance or Chinese traditional dance Ballroom dance This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Classical dance...
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  • etymology (possibly from Sanskrit or Classical Chinese), and sociolinguistic complexities. The modern Japanese writing system transcribes the insult...
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    pattern) of the Classical Japanese of the time. The lower bigrade conjugation pattern evolved into the modern ichidan pattern in modern Japanese, and these...
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  • Classical Chinese is the language in which the classics of Chinese literature were written, from c. the 5th century BCE. For millennia thereafter, the...
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    Old Japanese (上代日本語, Jōdai Nihon-go) is the oldest attested stage of the Japanese language, recorded in documents from the Nara period (8th century)....
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  • function. Classical Japanese had some auxiliary verbs (i.e., they were independent words) which have become grammaticized in modern Japanese as inflectional...
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    Yōkai (redirect from Japanese demon)
    Yōkai (妖怪, Japanese pronunciation: [joː.kai]) are a class of supernatural entities and spirits in Japanese folklore. The kanji representation of the word...
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  • Man'yōshū (category CS1 Japanese-language sources (ja))
    Thousand Leaves") is the oldest extant collection of Japanese waka (poetry in Classical Japanese), compiled sometime after AD 759 during the Nara period...
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  • This article deals with Japanese equivalents of English adjectives. In Japanese, nouns and verbs can modify nouns, with nouns taking the 〜の particles...
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  • classical Japanese, and yodan verbs are largely considered a classical Japanese class while godan verbs make up a fundamental part of modern Japanese...
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    Iaijutsu (category Articles containing Japanese-language text)
    art of drawing the Japanese sword, katana, is one of the Japanese ko-ryū martial art disciplines in the education of the classical warrior (bushi).: 50 ...
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    Japanese art of flower arrangement. It is also known as kadō (華道, 'way of flowers'). The origin of ikebana can be traced back to the ancient Japanese...
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  • Dictionary of Sources of Classical Japan is a trilingual English, French, and Japanese dictionary of texts from pre-modern Japanese history and literature...
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    Haiku (category Articles containing Japanese-language text)
    in Japanese) in a 5, 7, 5 pattern; that include a kireji, or "cutting word"; and a kigo, or seasonal reference. However, haiku by classical Japanese poets...
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    Tanka (category CS1 Japanese-language sources (ja))
    Tanka (短歌, "short poem") is a genre of classical Japanese poetry and one of the major genres of Japanese literature. Originally, in the time of the influential...
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    distinguished as Western classical music, as the term "classical music" can also be applied to non-Western art musics. Classical music is often characterized...
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  • Japanese pronouns (代名詞, daimeishi, Japanese pronunciation: [dai.meꜜi.ɕi, -meꜜː-]) are words in the Japanese language used to address or refer to present...
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    Sarashina Nikki (category Articles containing Japanese-language text)
    literary merits. Extracts from the work are part of Japanese high school students' classical Japanese studies. The daughter of Sugawara Takasue (also known...
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  • Irezumi (redirect from Japanese tattoo)
    spelled 入墨 or sometimes 刺青) is the Japanese word for tattoo, and is used in English to refer to a distinctive style of Japanese tattooing, though it is also...
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  • Classical liberalism is a political tradition and a branch of liberalism that advocates free market and laissez-faire economics and civil liberties under...
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