Beyond “In Spring, the Dawn”: Redeeming The Pillow Book through Manga

This paper examines three manga adaptations of The Pillow Book (Makura no sōshi, early 11th c.) published in the past thirty years to show how popular culture challenges Japanese school education and its approaches to teaching classical literature. It argues that manga rewritings of the Heian-period...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gergana E. Ivanova
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University Library System, University of Pittsburgh 2021-04-01
Series:Japanese Language and Literature
Online Access:http://jll.pitt.edu/ojs/JLL/article/view/158