Shogun and Samurai

[BIG]

Hi all,

 

for the Long evenings find int. book by Okanoya Shigezane:

 

http://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/bi ... sequence=1

 

 

Best Regards

[kusunokimasahige]

Thank you for posting that !! Very interesting !!

 

At the moment reading the Shinchōkōki 信長公記 by Ōta Gyūichi.

 

KM

[Ken-Hawaii]

Many thanks, Peter!

 

Ken

[sabi]

Very interesting read. Thank you so much for posting.

[kunitaro]

If you want to understand Shakespeare,

you must read in English, not in French or German....

So do Japanese literature....!?!?!

 

What do you think ?

[Bugyotsuji]

Kunitaro San,

 

For appreciating the English language and for polishing one's own ability in that language, I would agree with you regarding Shakespeare. You may find it easier to read an easy edition of a Shakespeare play in advance to prepare yourself, though.

 

When I read Yoshikawa Eiji's Story of Heike in English it opened my eyes to that world, and it also made me appreciate Kyoto in a way I had never experienced in three years of living there. Every street in Kyoto now rings with history in a way it never did before. If I want to read the Heike Monogatari in Japanese as classical literature, now I would be able to approach it with more confidence, I suspect. The first book helped me to overcome some otherwise almost impossible barriers. It helped me see the whole wood without getting caught in the trees.

[John A Stuart]

Absolutely, but, like Shakespeare, the older version of the language is tough, or worse Chaucer and that's relatively modern English. Like Kanbun, I suppose, you must be a scholar. John