Factbook

• 

  • Women Writers

  Japan’s first western-style fashion magazine was launched in 1936 by a controversial female novelist[UPDATED: 2-21-2018]

  Chiyo Uno (1897-1996), a novelist whose breakthrough work was Iro-zange, Confessions of Love, launched Japan’s first western-style fashion magazine, Sutairu, Style, in 1936. 
  
  Uno’s most highly regarded literary work is her novella Ohan (1957) published in English as Ohan in the collection of short-stories: The Old Woman, the Wife, and the Archer, translated by Donald Keane and published by Viking Press in 1961. 
  
  Uno, like many of the individuals in Japan who were publishing pioneers and launched magazines, was a high profile and charismatic individual so much so that The New York Times published an obituary on her shortly after her death in 1996 with the title: Chiyo Uno, 98, Writer Whose Loves Shook Japan.

  • TOPICS:
  • Magazines
  • Women Writers

  Japan’s first western-style fashion magazine was launched in 1936 by a controversial female novelist Posted January 3rd, 2018 by Richard Nathan
• 

  • Women Writers

  Japan’s oldest novel and perhaps even the world’s oldest is The Tale of Genji[UPDATED: 2-12-2018]

  The Tale of Genji written by Murasaki Shikibu, in 1010, during Japan’s Heian Period (794-1185) is said to be Japan’s oldest novel and perhaps even the world’s oldest novel, if a novel is defined as prose narrative of significant length.
  
  However, there were also many poets and writers during this period and earlier including many notable women who wrote autobiographical narratives in diaries, memoirs and poetic writings and essays such as the Pillow Book by Sei Shonagon.
  
  Fragments from the original scroll The Tale of Genji was written on have survived and are preserved at two Japanese museums.

  • TOPICS:
  • Culture
  • History
  • Women Writers

  Japan’s oldest novel and perhaps even the world’s oldest is The Tale of Genji Posted March 23rd, 2017 by Richard Nathan