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  The Japanese culture was always very much  influenced  by China and western particles, the art, the religion, all social life was determined by new trends. These trends were mostly of religious background. Confucianism and Buddhism. The feudal system in Japan and its hierarchical structure prevailed for many centuries. The attempts to introduce and granted new believes faced persecutions and prejudice. Japan was not ready and not willing to accept newcomers, any change was welcomed with hostility. The folklore of Japan is very picturesque, the origins of Japan and its inhabitants were mentioned in numerous tales, oracle songs. The most well-known tales tell that the Japanese people had their  descendants  in the Sun Goddess. A divine symbol will always be a Fuji mountain as an ecclesiastical ancestry of Japanese people. It is proved that most of the literature, especially the old texts had its background dated back to early migrations that took plac...

The history of Japan is thriving and full of depressing chapters,  respectively . The historical periods and its diversification made Japan so complex in notions, colorful, a folklore country. Mustn’t it be forgotten that behind this glistening façade – there are also atrocities of war, genocide and crimes against humanity. Despite the tremendous bombardment and war  destruction  – Japanese economy is booming, no one would have ever expected it will rise from the ashes of atomic bombs so quickly and so effectively.   Japan has changed since 1945 – Tokyo nowadays seems to be not in XXI but in XXII century. The US atomic bombardment will always be remembered, however, Japanese people would like to leave it behind. Despite the growth, Japan has also got debts, the debts has to be paid off – some of them, as it is believed caused unemployment and uncertainty. The feeling of sadness is overwhelming. The transformation it is what interested people, the transfo...

The story is a pure fiction, the perspective of perception of inner notions of a spiritual journey of Rohan, the journey is made to reach the final destination Tokyo, along the way, the protagonist enters smaller and bigger towns, in one of such towns he is advised to go through the range of mountains, he does it and encounters adventures, almost frozen to death he got help from a young woman, who nursed him till he recovered. She is a hermit, she tells him the story of her life, shortly after she finished, the house he was in disappeared; Rohan is left alone, again on the frozen land.  The symbol of the woman is a skull that is left next to him. The novel is packed with symbolism and images, metaphorical notions. The life of Koda Rohan is very interesting, he always wanted to have a good educational background, the works he wrote are beautiful, the language and rhyme combined altogether are unique and exceptional. His works reflect poetry, prose, not a regular novel the reader mig...

The Tale of Genji ( 源氏物語 ) by Murasaki Shikibu ( 紫   式 部 ) It represents the classical literature, the literature of the [1] Heian period, a very distinctive and productive in didactic. The book is unique – it was pronounced a first modern, psychological novel, it describes the daily life of the Emperor and the court’s vassals, live hood of everyday people. The book has got a shape of clusters of chapters and chapters, it was everyday writing to amuse, to entertain, to acknowledge the aristocracy, women mostly. The shape of the novel is very much alike as in modern evaluated narrative; there is one main hero, villain and sideways characters that fill the plot, make it vivid and dynamic. There is not a firm plot as the reader used to know in modern XX and XXI century novels, however, there is a chain of events that describes the life of the characters, it changes as their life goes on; gradually getting older and older. The system – Imperial Japan, feudal shape o...