By: AJ Witte This week we mainly focused on the Tale of Genji, one of the single most important pieces of Japanese Fiction of all time. It is even considered to be a foundational piece of world literature as well. It focuses around the titular character of Genji, the child of the emperor and one […]
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Mono No Aware in The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter Week 5
By: AJ Witte This reading which was the telling of the Japanese folk story “The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter,” focused on the idea on the Japanese idea of mono no aware, or the idea that we should find beauty in the passing of things. Or rather the fact that there is beauty in the […]
