The Tale of the Lady Ochikubo: A Tenth Century Japanese Novel
by Ochikubo Monogatari, Ochikubo Monogatari
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The Tale of the Lady Ochikubo dates from the last quarter of the tenth century. It is therefore one of the earliest of that long line of monogatari which are a special part of Japanese literature from the Heian Era. Ochikubo is the first novel: here for the first time is a vivid and realistic chronicle of life, related with a wealth of natural dialogue. In no story of the Heian Era are there so few poems or an absence of descriptions of the beauties of nature. The author keeps close to the show more human story he is chronicling. It is also the first novel to attempt any kind of characterisa show lessTags
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Heian novel of a despised young woman who wins love. Seen by some scholars as a variant of the Cinderella motif
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- 10th century
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- Fiction and Literature, General Fiction
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- 895.6232 — Literature & rhetoric Asian Literature Literatures of East and Southeast Asia Japanese Japanese drama Edo period 1603–1868 1603–1772
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- PL787 .O25 .E54 — Language and Literature Languages and literatures of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania Languages of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania Japanese language and literature Japanese literature Individual authors and works
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