Mumyōzōshi (無名草子, literally "nameless book") is an early 13th-century Japanese text. One volume in length, it is the oldest existing Japanese text on prose...

Monogatari (指輪物語) and To Kill a Mockingbird as Arabama Monogatari (アラバマ物語). Mumyōzōshi, a 13th-century literary critique on monogatari, many of which are no...

texts are either completely or partially no longer extant. Along with Mumyōzōshi, Fūyō Wakashū is highly valued as a resource for research on lost literature...

known about either the date of composition or author of Ariake no Wakare. Mumyōzōshi refers to the work as a "contemporary work" (今の世の物語, ima no yo no monogatari)...

fiction by Teika, although there were probably others at one time. The Mumyōzōshi (1200 or 1201) attributes the work to him. It was probably written between...

character is quite different in the earlier version of the Torikaebaya. The Mumyōzōshi berates her character in the later version for not being faithful to her...

and requires the emperor to cede him the throne instead. The author of Mumyōzōshi disapproved of the manner in which Genji ultimately becomes honorary retired...

rejecting this floating world and drifting away as the wind calls them? Mumyōzōshi, a text on literary criticism presumably written by Shunzei's daughter...

no Naishi ever since the Hōbutsushū [ja] in the twelfth century. The Mumyōzōshi had praised her as foremost among the talented women of the Heian court...

7 pages). Tanaka Takako, "Medieval Literature and Women: Focusing on Mumyōzōshi." Gender and Japanese History, ed. Wakita Haruko, Anne Bouchy, Ueno Chizuko...