biwa (a short-necked Japanese fretted string instrument) which was one of the ways the stories were transmitted ... of the Heike is classified under the subgenre of Gunki monogatari (medieval war tales) in Japanese literature ... Summary.This tale's origin cannot be attributed to one author like most Japanese literature works e.g
Being transmittedorally does not only mean technical transmitting from mouth to mouth, but also mean ... Sijo was transmittedorally rather than being transcribed in Chinese until the beginning of the eighteenth ... There is no doubt that future of literature; sijo will last long as the.