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“The Tale of Genji” (“Genji-monogatari”), the greatest monument of Japanese and world literature, was created at the turn of the 10th-11th centuries, during ...

Cha Jing (茶經, “tea canon”) is the first ever treatise on tea and tea drinking, created during the Chinese Tang Dynasty (3rd quarter of the 8th century) by th...

A 12th-century Japanese romance novel about a girl with an unusual outlook on life.

This publication is the first publicly available collection of works by sinologist and ethnographer P. V. Shkurkin (1868–1943), one of the most famous orient...

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-...

The story of Mar Kuryakus and Yolita, martyrs known in Russian literature under the names of Kirik and Iulitta, is a wonderful monument to Eastern Christian ...

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