Hey /lit/, I don't know if this is the best place to discuss

>>8911706
I speak japanese.

That's bullshit, OP.

I think it's true that they use it much less in popular settings but using irony or sarcasm to ridicule their own culture is not uncommon among writers and other intellectuals.

>>8911753
This

>>8911706
I've met people who think chinese opera is all slapstick and some who think it's only long winded wailing. Sometime's the long winded wailing is very sarcastic as a meta-commentary on wailing operas and sometimes the slapstick is very sincere as a way of making something shallow deep.

>>8911772
>>8911753
I know they use it at least sometimes(and it's likely a more recent development), but I read it was much less common. Something to do with how the language is set up.That may be why I can't really get into most Japanese stories let alone humor, unless someone can direct me to multiple examples where it was common place.

>>8913094
The whole practice of nori-tsukkomi is an application of sarcasm to the whole boke-tsukkomi style of humor that is the most common one in japan, as an example.

>>8913361
So basically sarcasm involving the "straight man" and "funny man" farce?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manzai
Funny though, I also read that Japanese don't make use of metaphor often.

>Japan
>humour

>>8914135
Nice contribution to the thread, anon. You must be a shining beacon of knowledge.

>>8914139
ill show you a shining beacon *unzips cock*