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Genres

Literary Genres (and sub-genres)

• Japanese poetry (waka)
  • tanka
  • chôka
  • hanka
  • renga
  • haikai
  • 3 major genres of poetry in the Man'yôshû
    • Zôka
    • Banka
    • Sômon
  • Poetry collections
  • uta monogatari - poem tales
  • haiku poetry and haibun
• monogatari – “tales”
  • uta monogatari - poem tales
  • gunki monogatari – war tales
• Music
  • saibara
  • gagaku
  • imayô
• Dance
  • bugaku
  • gigaku?
  • shirabyôshi
  • butô
• Drama
  • dengaku
  • sarugaku
  • nô
  • kyôgen
  • bunraku or jôruri
  • kabuki
  • Takarazuka
  • shingeki
  • shogekijô
  • rakugo
• Prose
  • nikki – “journals” or “memoirs”
  • zuihitsu - pensee, "following the brush"
  • setsuwa - "lesson tales"
  • otogizôshi or muromachi monogatari - "companion booklets"
  • kanazôshi – kana booklets
  • gesaku - "low" works
  • ukiyozôshi – books of the floating world
  • yomihon – “books for reading”
  • kusazôshi – illustrated books
    • kibyôshi
    • gôkan
• modern literary trends
  • naturalism
  • "I" novels