Japanese literature

Tōkaidōchū Hizakurige (東海道中膝栗毛), abbreviated as Hizakurige and known in translation as Shank's Mare, is a comic picaresque novel (kokkeibon) written by Jippensha Ikku (十返舎一九, 1765–1831) about the misadventures of two travelers on the Tōkaidō, the main road between Kyoto and Edo during the Edo period.

Kigo (季語 "season word") (plural kigo) is a word or phrase associated with a particular season, used in traditional forms of Japanese poetry.

Emakimono (絵巻物 emaki-mono, literally 'picture scroll'), often simply called emaki (絵巻), is a horizontal, illustrated narrative form created during the 11th to 16th centuries in Japan.

Fan fiction or fanfiction (also abbreviated to fan fic, fanfic, or fic) is fiction about characters or settings from an original work of fiction, created by fans of that work rather than by its creator.

A light novel (ライトノベル raito noberu) is a style of Japanese novel primarily, but not exclusively, targeting middle- and high-school students (young adult demographic).

The literature of the Five Mountains is the literature produced by the principal Zen (禅) monastic centers of the Rinzai sect in Kyoto and Kamakura, Japan.

Encyclopedia Nipponica (日本大百科全書 Nihon Dai Hyakka Zensho, lit. The Japan Comprehensive Encyclopedia) was published in 1984 from Shogakukan.

Momotarō (桃太郎, "Peach Boy") is a popular hero of Japanese folklore originating from Okayama Prefecture.

Ogura Hyakunin Isshu (小倉百人一首) is a classical Japanese anthology of one hundred Japanese waka by one hundred poets.

The Wamyō ruijushō or Wamyō ruijūshō (倭名類聚抄, "Japanese names [for things], classified and annotated") is a 938 CE Japanese dictionary of Chinese characters.

The Wakan Sansai Zue (和漢三才図会, lit. "Illustrated Sino-Japanese Encyclopedia") is an illustrated Japanese leishu encyclopedia published in 1712 in the Edo period.

Kyōka (狂歌, "wild" or "mad poetry") is a popular, parodic subgenre of the tanka form of Japanese poetry with a metre of 5-7-5-7-7.

The National Institute of Japanese Literature (国文学研究資料館 Kokubungaku Kenkyū Shiryōkan), or NIJL, was established in May 1972.

A kashū (家集), also called a shikashū (私家集) or ie-no-shū (家の集), is a private collection of waka poems compiled by the author of the poems included.

Kanazōshi (仮名草子) describes a type of printed Japanese book that was produced primarily in Kyoto between 1600 and 1680.

Kibyōshi (黄表紙) is a genre of Japanese picture book kusazōshi (草双紙) produced during the middle of the Edo period, from 1775 to the early 19th century.

The sharebon (洒落本) was a pre-modern Japanese literary genre.

Kōdan (講談, formerly known as kōshaku (講釈)) is a style of traditional oral Japanese storytelling.

The rekishi monogatari (歴史物語, sometimes translated as "historical tale") is a category of Japanese literature.

The ninjōbon (人情本) is a pre-modern Japanese literary genre.