Book contents
- The Cambridge History of Japanese Literature
- The Cambridge History of Japanese Literature
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Book part
- A note on Romanization and conventions
- Glossary
- General introduction
- Part I The ancient period (beginnings to 794)
- Part II The Heian period (794–1185)
- 7 Introduction: court culture, women, and the rise of vernacular literature
- 8 Sugawara no Michizane, a Heian literatus and statesman
- 9 Kokinshūand Heian court poetry
- 10 Early Heian court tales
- 11 Genji monogatariand its reception
- 12 Late courtly romance
- 13 Premodern commentary on the classical literary canon
- 14 ThePillow Bookof Sei Shōnagon
- 15 Heian literary diaries: fromTosa nikkitoSarashina nikki
- 16 The Heian Academy: literati culture from Minamoto no Shitagō to Ōe no Masafusa
- 17 Heian canons of Chinese poetry:Wakan rōeishūand Bai Juyi
- 18 The Literary Essence of Our Court (Honchō monzui)
- 19 Vernacular histories:Eiga monogatari, Ōkagami, Gukanshō
- 20 Heian popular songs:imayōandRyōjin hishō
- Part III The medieval period (1185–1600)
- Part IV The Edo period (1600–1867)
- Part V The modern period (1868 to present)
- Bibliography of English secondary sources and translations
- Index
12 - Late courtly romance
from Part II - The Heian period (794–1185)
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 January 2016
Book contents
- The Cambridge History of Japanese Literature
- The Cambridge History of Japanese Literature
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Book part
- A note on Romanization and conventions
- Glossary
- General introduction
- Part I The ancient period (beginnings to 794)
- Part II The Heian period (794–1185)
- 7 Introduction: court culture, women, and the rise of vernacular literature
- 8 Sugawara no Michizane, a Heian literatus and statesman
- 9 Kokinshūand Heian court poetry
- 10 Early Heian court tales
- 11 Genji monogatariand its reception
- 12 Late courtly romance
- 13 Premodern commentary on the classical literary canon
- 14 ThePillow Bookof Sei Shōnagon
- 15 Heian literary diaries: fromTosa nikkitoSarashina nikki
- 16 The Heian Academy: literati culture from Minamoto no Shitagō to Ōe no Masafusa
- 17 Heian canons of Chinese poetry:Wakan rōeishūand Bai Juyi
- 18 The Literary Essence of Our Court (Honchō monzui)
- 19 Vernacular histories:Eiga monogatari, Ōkagami, Gukanshō
- 20 Heian popular songs:imayōandRyōjin hishō
- Part III The medieval period (1185–1600)
- Part IV The Edo period (1600–1867)
- Part V The modern period (1868 to present)
- Bibliography of English secondary sources and translations
- Index
Summary
Much longer fiction survives from Imperial Princess Baishi's day, and one of her attendants, is credited with Sagoromo monogatari, dated to sometime between 1069 and 1086. The influence of Genji is discernible on the very first page of Sagoromo, as the eponymous hero alludes to a poem by Genji himself. In the postscript to his copy of the Sarashina nikki, the famous poet Fujiwara no Teika records the attribution of four monogatari to the diary's author, two of which are still extant: Yoru no Nezame and Hamamatsu Chunagon monogatari. The final monogatari extant from the Heian period is Torikaebaya monogatari. Critical consideration of the monogatari genre reached its second peak in 1271 with the completion of the Fuyo wakashu, an imperial anthology-like collection of over two hundred poems drawn exclusively from monogatari, in twenty books. The collection provides evidence that it was in fact in the Kamakura period that most monogatari were produced.
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- The Cambridge History of Japanese Literature , pp. 140 - 156Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2015