Ariake no Wakare

Ariake no Wakare (有明の別れ) is a Japanese tsukuri-monogatari (romantic tale).^[1]

Authorship and date

Very little is known about either the date of composition or author of Ariake no Wakare.^[2] 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.^[2] This means it may date from either the end of the Heian period or the beginning of the Kamakura period.^[2]

Reception

Ariake no Wakare was highly regarded by thirteenth-century court audiences.^[2]

References

^ Khan, Robert Omar (1998). Ariake no wakare : genre, gender, and genealogy in a late 12th century monogatari (Thesis). University of British Columbia.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Keene 1999, p. 798.

Works cited

Keene, Donald (1999) [1993]. 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.