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wrote mulberry child
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minakami tsutomu
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who was a poet and wrote free verse
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tanikawa shuntaro
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whos poems are about passion and curiosity
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tanikawa shuntaro
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who entered a poetry contest to get outta college
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tanikawa shuntaro
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who translated peanuts and mother goose ryhmes into jap
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tanikawa shuntaro
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who wrote modern tanka and made it famous
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tawara machi
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who was born on dec 31, parents wanted to regiter on jap 1 but it was the year of the tiger whcih was considered weak
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tawara machi
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who wrote villon's wife
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dazai osamu
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charcters in villon's wife
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mr and mrs otani
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who lived in poverty, sometimes homeless
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hayashi fumiko
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who died of a heartattack
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hayashi fumiko
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what did hayashi fumiko write
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diff kinna drifting cloud, tokyo
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characters in tokyo
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ryo and tsuruishi
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characters in the monastery
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i, you, k
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kanagaki Robun
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beef eater
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meat
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who's most well-known writer in japan and sickly child of autointoxification
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mishima yukio
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who had shield society to protect the emporor
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mishima yukio
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who was fascinated with death and beauty
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mishima yukio
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what did mishima write
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omi and the tetralogy sea of fertility
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who wrote woman in the dunes
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abe kobo
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who was known as a man w/o a hometown and known as the international aitheor b/c he doesnt attach self to newhere
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abe kobo
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who was influenced by kafka (metamorphisi, dreams, irrational, surreal)
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abe kobo
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who believed in existentialism
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abe kobo
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what is existentialism
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life is absurd, doesn't make sense
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who was censored by gon't for being anti-war
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ishikawa jun
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who was a detached observer of life and belong to the decadence school..also very non jap
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ishikawa jun
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who satirzed I novels, and narrators are half serious and half comic
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ishikawa jun
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who wrote moon gems (I and a lil girl)
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ishikawa jun
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tsuboshi shoyo
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essence of the novel
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who taught english then war was declared against it and also drafted into military
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kojima nobuo
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who wrote stars
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kojima nobuo
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who wrote paraodies of jap lit, futuristic sci-fi, erotica, ghosts
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kurahashi yumiko
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first modern jap novel
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the drifting cloud
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hattori busho
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western peep show
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2nd story read
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characters in stars
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hikida (lower man), capt inoma, pri. sugihara
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surrealistic, doesn't believe in who, what, wen, where, why in novels, believes in building castles in the sky
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kurahashi yumiko
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who studied in US for one year and swtched from surrealistic to realistic
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kurahashi yumiko
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who believes in "the point of writing is to exercise on'es imagination"
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kurahashi yumiko
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who wrote the monastery
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kurahashi yumiko
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characters in mulberry child
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tarokichi (new boy), yasuke (mulberry chiuld), shozaemon (old man)
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who suffered from eye disease, poor, and had a handicapped child
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minakami tsutomu
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who was sent to a zen temple to be a priest, ran away, but brought back and sent to another temple
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minakami tsutomu
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who started writing after caughing up blood
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minakami tsutomu
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who was drafted and released to the military
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minakami tsutomu
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who wrote a lot of mystery novels
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minakami tsutomu
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who was a catholic convert and Christian writer
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endo shusaku
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what was hospitalized for lung surgery
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endo shusaku
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who wrote the day before
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endo shusaku
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charcetrs in the day before
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togoro the traitor, mr fukae
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who was brought up with old customs and forced to make military uniforms
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kono taeko
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whose stories show dark human behavior
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kono taeko
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who writes about women protagonists who are lonely and who mellows out later
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kono taeko
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who wrote iron fish
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kono taeko
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characters in firefly hunt
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yukiko (traditional/but plays piano), taiko (westernized/but good with traditional jap dancing)
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meiji, taisho, showa, heisei
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1868-1912, 1912-1926, 1926-1989, 1989-present
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light hearted, not serious, gov't figured not educational
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gessaku lit
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drifting cloud characters
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bunzo, noboru, osei, chokichi
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dont have to teach, art for art's sake, kanzen choaku: chastize bad encourage good <--dont worry bout this theory
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essence of the novel
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futabatei shimei
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drifting cloud
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first female novelist
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higuchi ichio
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what did higuchi ichio write
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growing up
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characters in growing up
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midori (grows up to be geisha), shota (pawnbrokers son), nobu (young priest)
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why did higuchi ichio write?
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she wrote cuz she was poor and it helped her to survive
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bungakkai founded by who
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kitayama tokoku
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what did izumi kyoka write
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the tale of 3 who were blind
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what did shimazaki toson write
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the broken commandment
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what did takayama katai write
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old soldier
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what did kunikida doppo write
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old gen
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main character in the broken commandment
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ushimatsu
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what did natsuke soseki write
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botchan and kokoro
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characters in old gen
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kishu and gen
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naturalism resulted in what kind of novels
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"I" novels
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who didnt get along with his father
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shiga naoya
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who was adopted (not happy life), went to england but didnt like it there, went into depression
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natsume soseki
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lived a good life, became a dr, lived in germany but didnt suffer like soseki, studied public hygiene, appted as medical office in army
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mori ogai
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founded vita sexualis
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mori ogai
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what is vita sexualis
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parody of naturalist lit
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what did mori ogai write
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maihime and gan
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characters in maihime
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narrator and elis
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charcters in gan
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otama and suezo
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against naturalism and died of TB
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mori ogai
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leader of myojo
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yosano tekkan
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believed humans were good, all upper class kids, against naturalism
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white birch society
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who was in the white birch society
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shiga naoya
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what did shiga naoya write
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han's crime and at kinosuke
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what did ishikawa takuboku write
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romaji diary
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what did nagai kafu write
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the river sumida
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characters in river sumida
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ragetsu (uncle), otoyo (mom), chokichi, oito
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who was a loner and died alone
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nagai kafu
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who's mother was insane and was afraid to be too
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akutagawa ryonosuke
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who wrote hell screen
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akutagawa ryonosuke
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main character in hell screen
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yoshihide
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who combines grotesque and humor
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akutagawa ryonosuke
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rashomon based on who's story
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akutagawa ryonosuke
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what did kikuchi kan write
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madman on the roof
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characters in madman on the roof
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yoshitaro (madman), suejiro (younger bro)
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who founded the akutagawa prize and considered tycoon of lit world
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kikuchi kan
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prolit lit: arishima takeo belonged to what school
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shirakaba
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what did kobayshi takiji write
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the cannery boat
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2 writers of neo sensualism
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kawabata yasunari and yokomitsu riichi
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middle-class upbringing, disliked naturalism, strived for modernism
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yokomitsu riichi
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what did yokomitsu riichi write
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time
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who was the FIRST nobel prize winner
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kawabata yasunari
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what did kawabata write
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the moon on the water, snow country, and the mole
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characters in the mole
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sayako
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characters in snow country
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shimamura, komako, and yoko
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who commited suicide with drugs and gas
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kawabata yasunari
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5 reasons for kawabatas death
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1. ill health
2. didn't like how japan came westernized 3. didnt wanna get old and ugly 4. didn't get over mishima's suicide 5. overwhelmed from winning nobel |
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who idolized his mother
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tanizaki junichiro
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became infatuated with traditional japanese
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tanizaki junichiro
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2 types of women in tanizaki junichiro's writing
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1. westernized = cruel
2. traditional = doll-like |
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what book talked about the sense of foulness
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the mother of capt shigemoto
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what did tanizaki junichiro write
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the mother of capt shigemoto and the firefly hunt from the makioka sisters
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who attempted suicide 5 times and came from a rich family
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dazai osamu
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what groups did tawara machi join
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new human species and kokoro no hana
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who was an existentialist and left wing
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oe kenzaburo
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what were the 2 events that changed oe kenzaburo's life
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1. birth of son hikari
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who wrote a personal matter
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oe kenzaburo
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who was offerend the bunka kunsho prize from the emporer but declicned it
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oe kenzaburo
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who gave a lecture called "japan, the amiguous, and myself"
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oe kenzaburo
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who was the daughter of dazai osamu
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tsushima yuko
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whose themes are absence of fathers and is a feminist writer
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tsushima yuko
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who lost son by mistake
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tsushima yuko
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whose older brother is mentally retarded
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tsushima yuko
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who wrote the silent traders
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tsushima yuko
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characters in silent traders
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a woman, her kids, the kids father
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who was a poor, illegit burakumin
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nakagami kenji
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who gave a lecture in germany "am i japanese" b/c hes anti-japanese
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nakagami kenji
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who blends reality with fantasy; disturbingly graphic of people in the ghetto
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nakagami kenji
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who was the terrible child of jap lit b/c he writes for the benefit of the eta class
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nakagami kenji
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who was the rival of tsushima yukio
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nakagami kenji
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who wrote grave of the fireflies
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nosaka akiyuki
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charcters of grave of the fireflies
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seita and setsuko
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who challenged the censorship laws
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nosaka akiyuki
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who was adopted and wrote commercial songs and drama scripts
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nosaka akiyuki
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who was adopted and returned to father and had a good life after that
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nosaka akiyuki
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