Древневосточная literature

Hokku is one of the national poetic forms in Japan. It is a tercet, which became a serious genre at the beginning of the 16th century. This collection consis...

In the history of literature of the peoples of the world, it is difficult to find a book that could compete with Kokinwakashu. For a thousand years it has to...

"One Hundred Poems of a Hundred Poets" is a selection - an anthology of classical tanka, compiled in Japan in the first half of the 13th century by the famou...

This publication represents the first Russian translation of one of the oldest monuments of Old Japanese literature. “The Diary of an Ephemeral Life” was cre...

This publication represents the first Russian translation of one of the oldest monuments of Old Japanese literature. “The Diary of an Ephemeral Life” was cre...

For three centuries now, in any Chinese bookstore you can find a collection of stories by Pu Song-lin, in which amazing stories await the reader: about were-...

Since ancient times, China has had a sophisticated strategy of communication and confrontation, which enabled those who mastered it to successfully manipulat...

The collection presents selected sayings and aphorisms of the great Chinese thinker.

The first complete Russian translation of the world's most popular version of Arabian fairy tales, “The Arabian Nights,” edited by Joseph-Charles Mardrus, di...

Publisher's abstract: The work of Saigyo, who lived in the bloody era of the formation of military feudalism in Japan, is characterized by motifs of grief. P...