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Meisho, the Glossary

Index Meisho

originally referred to sites in Japan famous for their associations with specific poetic or literary references.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 31 relations: Battle of Ichi-no-Tani, Edo, Edo meisho zue, Edo period, Heian period, Hikaru Genji, Hiroshige, Hiroshige II, Japan, Jōruri (music), Kabuki, Kobe, Kyoto, Literary tourism, Meibutsu, Noh, One Hundred Famous Views of Edo, Owari meisho zue, Plover, Suma-ku, Kobe, Sumida River, Taira no Atsumori, The Tale of Genji, The Tale of the Heike, The Tales of Ise, Tokugawa shogunate, Tokyo, Ukiyo-e, Utamakura, Woodblock printing in Japan, Yoshiwara.

  2. Japanese literary terminology

Battle of Ichi-no-Tani

The was fought between the offensive Minamoto clan and the defensive Taira clan at Suma, to the west of present-day Kobe, Japan, on 20 March 1184.

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Edo

Edo (江戸||"bay-entrance" or "estuary"), also romanized as Jedo, Yedo or Yeddo, is the former name of Tokyo.

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Edo meisho zue

is an illustrated guide describing famous places, called meisho, and depicting their scenery in pre-1868 Tokyo, then known as Edo.

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Edo period

The, also known as the, is the period between 1603 and 1868 in the history of Japan, when Japan was under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate and the country's 300 regional daimyo.

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Heian period

The is the last division of classical Japanese history, running from 794 to 1185.

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Hikaru Genji

is the protagonist of Murasaki Shikibu's important Heian-era Japanese novel The Tale of Genji.

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Hiroshige

Utagawa Hiroshige (also; 歌川 広重), born Andō Tokutarō (安藤 徳太郎; 1797 – 12 October 1858), was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist, considered the last great master of that tradition.

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Hiroshige II

was a Japanese designer of ukiyo-e art.

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Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia, located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asian mainland.

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Jōruri (music)

is a form of traditional Japanese narrative music in which a sings to the accompaniment of a. accompanies, traditional Japanese puppet theater.

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Kabuki

is a classical form of Japanese theatre, mixing dramatic performance with traditional dance.

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Kobe

Kobe (Kōbe), officially, is the capital city of Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan.

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Kyoto

Kyoto (Japanese: 京都, Kyōto), officially, is the capital city of Kyoto Prefecture in the Kansai region of Japan's largest and most populous island of Honshu.

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Literary tourism

Literary tourism is a type of cultural tourism that deals with places and events from literary texts as well as the lives of their authors.

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Meibutsu

is a Japanese term most often applied to regional specialties (also known as). can also be applied to specialized areas of interest, such as, where it refers to famous tea utensils, or Japanese swords, where it refers to specific named famous blades.

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Noh

is a major form of classical Japanese dance-drama that has been performed since the 14th century.

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One Hundred Famous Views of Edo

One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (in Meisho Edo Hyakkei) is a series of 119 ukiyo-e prints begun and largely completed by the Japanese artist Hiroshige (1797–1858).

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Owari meisho zue

is an illustrated guide describing famous places, called meisho, and depicting their scenery in pre-1868 Owari province in central Japan.

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Plover

Plovers are members of a widely distributed group of wading birds of family Charadriidae.

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Suma-ku, Kobe

is one of 9 wards of Kobe, Japan.

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Sumida River

The is a river that flows through central Tokyo, Japan.

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Taira no Atsumori

(1169–1184) was a samurai of the late Heian period of Japan.

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The Tale of Genji

, also known as Genji Monogatari is a classic work of Japanese literature written by the noblewoman, poet, and lady-in-waiting Murasaki Shikibu around the peak of the Heian period, in the early 11th century. Meisho and the Tale of Genji are Japanese literature.

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The Tale of the Heike

is an epic account compiled prior to 1330 of the struggle between the Taira clan and Minamoto clan for control of Japan at the end of the 12th century in the Genpei War (1180–1185).

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The Tales of Ise

is a Japanese uta monogatari, or collection of waka poems and associated narratives, dating from the Heian period.

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Tokugawa shogunate

The Tokugawa shogunate (Tokugawa bakufu), also known as the, was the military government of Japan during the Edo period from 1603 to 1868.

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Tokyo

Tokyo (東京), officially the Tokyo Metropolis (label), is the capital of Japan and one of the most populous cities in the world, with a population of over 14 million residents as of 2023 and the second-most-populated capital in the world.

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Ukiyo-e

Ukiyo-e is a genre of Japanese art that flourished from the 17th through 19th centuries.

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Utamakura

is a rhetorical concept in Japanese poetry. Meisho and Utamakura are Japanese poetry.

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Woodblock printing in Japan

Woodblock printing in Japan (木版画, mokuhanga) is a technique best known for its use in the ukiyo-e artistic genre of single sheets, but it was also used for printing books in the same period.

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Yoshiwara

was a famous (red-light district) in Edo, present-day Tokyo, Japan.

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See also

Japanese literary terminology

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meisho

Also known as Meisho-E.