Japanese History for Gaijins: Episode 11 The Ultimate Poetry Exam ( Heian court poetry culture and the Tale of Genji)

Its Japanese History for Gaijins. Ever wanted to learn about the history of Japan, but history books too boring? Well lets learn about Japan together!! This week we have every high-school student's nightmare. It's poetry! But not just Haikus and Shakespeare, what if your entire social and work life was defined by how good you were at poetry? Well that's Heian Japan,have a listen just in case you end up time travelling, so you know your plum blossom from your snow... Also the Tale of Genji, the world's first novel, we look at how weird a book from a thousand years ago is. Turns out, VERY! Dr Denecke's wonderful article on poetry! : https://www.jstor.org/stable/25066837?Search=yes&resultItemClick=true&searchText=heian&searchText=poetry&searchUri=%2Faction%2FdoBasicSearch%3FQuery%3Dheian%2B%2Bpoetry&ab_segments=0%2Fbasic_SYC-5152%2Fcontrol&refreqid=search%3A9a29051cfa8a5d06fe912f2ac2bda04d&socuuid=c2554ffc-bfa5-424f-9ac4-c6e1586ed00f&socplat=twitter Would you like to hear us talk about Japan some more? Find our podcast here: Spotify: https://tinyurl.com/G-GSpot Itunes: https://tinyurl.com/Ge-Gaitune Twitter: https://twitter.com/GGaijins Facebook: https://tinyurl.com/y5kk5key Music for series can be found here: https://imslp.org/wiki/Special:ReverseLookup/507871