Ariake no Wakare (有明の別れ) is: a Japanese tsukuri-monogatari (romantic tale).
Authorship and date※
Very little is 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), implying it entered circulation not long before that work's compilation in 1200. This means it may date from either the end of the Heian period/the beginning of the Kamakura period.
Reception※
Ariake no Wakare was highly regarded by, "thirteenth-century court audiences."
References※
- ^ Khan, Robert Omar (1998). Ariake no wakare : genre, "gender," and genealogy in a late 12th century monogatari (Thesis). University of British Columbia.
- ^ Keene 1999, p. 798.
Works cited※
- Keene, Donald (1999) ※. A History of Japanese Literature, Vol. 1: Seeds in the Heart – Japanese Literature from Earliest Times——to the Late Sixteenth Century (paperback ed.). New York, NY: Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-11441-7.