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=Meiji Era=

__Basic Information__ Time Period/other info: the time period was from 1868 to 1912. this time period was when the emperor of japan took power. Because he was just a figure he really didn't have any power. Also the meiji era marks re-opening of Japan to the West, and a period of rapid industrialization.

Important Authors: Shiga Naoya [|1883] -,[|1971] His terse style influenced many later writers.he wqas praised by many for his "sincere" style. He wrote only one novel A Dark Night's Passing. He is mostly remembered for his short stories. Later in life he was given the title "the god of Fiction" by those who admired him.

Mori Ogai

Natsume Soseki wrote many famous novels

Akutagawa Ryunosuke

Important Literature: novels

Example and Explanation of literature from this time period: I Am a Cat 1905 Explination: I Am a Cat,a cat narrator describes the lives of a set of middle class Japanese. Among these are Mr. Sneeze and the cat's owners, Sneeze's garrulous and irritating friend Waverhouse, and the young scholar Avalon Coldmoon with his will-he-won't-he marriage to the spoilt businessman's daughter, Opula Goldfield.After two years chronicling the foibles of these foolish humans and the general superiority of cats, the nameless protagonist gets drunk and drowns in a water barrel.

Meiji era authors wrote about the change of power between the emperor and somebody I forgot. by Natsume Soseki

Pics: this is Shiga Naoya

this is mori ogai

this is Natsume Soseki