This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1885.
You don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer'; but that ain't no matter. That book was made by a Mr Mark Twain, and he told the truth, mainly.
May 16 – Sakuradoki Zeni no Yononaka ("The Season of Cherry Blossoms; The World of Money"), an adaptation by Genzo Katsu after Bunkai Udagawa of The Merchant of Venice set in the
Edo period, is performed by the Nakamura Sojuro
Kabuki company at the Ebisu-za Theater in
Osaka, the first of
Shakespeare's plays to be staged with actors in
Japan.[6]
June 1 – More than two million people join
Victor Hugo's funeral procession in Paris from the
Arc de Triomphe to the
Panthéon, where he is the first author to be buried, following his death on May 22 in the city from
pneumonia aged 83.
The first translation of
Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace into English begins publication. It has been done by Clara Bell from a French version.
The first translation of
Amy Catherine Walton (Mrs. O. F. Walton)'s Christian novel Christie's Old Organ into Japanese, made by Tajima Kashi, is published, one of the earliest examples of
children's literature in
Japan.[8]
^Kawachi, Yoshiko (1998). "The Merchant of Venice and Japanese Culture". Japanese Studies in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries. Newark: University of Delaware Press.
ISBN9780874136739.
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1885.
You don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer'; but that ain't no matter. That book was made by a Mr Mark Twain, and he told the truth, mainly.
May 16 – Sakuradoki Zeni no Yononaka ("The Season of Cherry Blossoms; The World of Money"), an adaptation by Genzo Katsu after Bunkai Udagawa of The Merchant of Venice set in the
Edo period, is performed by the Nakamura Sojuro
Kabuki company at the Ebisu-za Theater in
Osaka, the first of
Shakespeare's plays to be staged with actors in
Japan.[6]
June 1 – More than two million people join
Victor Hugo's funeral procession in Paris from the
Arc de Triomphe to the
Panthéon, where he is the first author to be buried, following his death on May 22 in the city from
pneumonia aged 83.
The first translation of
Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace into English begins publication. It has been done by Clara Bell from a French version.
The first translation of
Amy Catherine Walton (Mrs. O. F. Walton)'s Christian novel Christie's Old Organ into Japanese, made by Tajima Kashi, is published, one of the earliest examples of
children's literature in
Japan.[8]
^Kawachi, Yoshiko (1998). "The Merchant of Venice and Japanese Culture". Japanese Studies in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries. Newark: University of Delaware Press.
ISBN9780874136739.