What is Japan's answer to Shakespeare?
2007-12-01 00:08:31 · 9 answers · asked by Much too tired. 3 in Travel ➔ Asia Pacific ➔ Japan
Chikamatsu Monzaemon, a playwrite who lived in the 1600s, about two generations after Shakespeare.
Check him out.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chikamatsu_Monzaemon
2007-12-01 00:25:59 · answer #1 · answered by ? 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Zeami, maybe.
He is not only noh-play writer, he actually invented and developed the noh-theater in Japan. He also wrote a study of the art of acting, the perconification and the stage performance as a whole.
2007-12-01 12:16:06 · answer #2 · answered by Princess Kushinada 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
2007-12-01 00:18:22 · answer #3 · answered by michinoku2001 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Perhaps Matsuo Basho.
2007-12-01 04:22:02 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Kurakami
2007-12-01 01:13:10 · answer #5 · answered by ケチャッパー 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I am not, but if you want know read Shakespeare in Japan. by. Alex Huang.
2007-12-01 00:11:47 · answer #6 · answered by Jag 2 · 0⤊ 3⤋
I would have to say Souseki Natsume. (夏目漱石1867-1916)
"Wagahai ha neko de aru" is one of his very popular piece.
http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%A4%8F%E7%9B%AE%E6%BC%B1%E7%9F%B3
2007-12-01 05:39:02 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
yoo mai chi chu ka ! its funny
2007-12-01 00:12:43 · answer #8 · answered by shafique 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
whoever invented the haiku
2007-12-01 00:11:26 · answer #9 · answered by mor e 3 · 1⤊ 4⤋