For 10 points, name this home country of Basho, Lady Murasaki Shikibu, The Tale of Genji, and haikus.
One book from this nation includes characters nicknamed "Cicada Shell" and "The Minister of the Left." A collaborative poetic form from this country, usually written by at least three people, was adapted by the author of The Seashell Game and the travel diary Narrow Road to the Interior to make a new form. This home country of the renga is the setting for the court gossip of the Pillow Book and a blank chapter entitled "Vanished Into the Clouds." Lady Aoi dies bearing the child of the title womanizing prince in a text from here often called the first novel. For 10 points, name this home country of Basho, Lady Murasaki Shikibu, The Tale of Genji, and haikus.
One book from this nation includes characters nicknamed "Cicada Shell" and "The Minister of the Left.
Japan [or Nippon-koku; or Nihon-koku]