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Record Nr.

UNINA9910437647103321

Autore

Kamens Edward <1952->

Titolo

The Buddhist poetry of the Great Kamo Priestess : Daisaiin Senshi and Hosshin Wakashū / / by Edward Kamens

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ann Arbor, Michigan : , : University of Michigan Press, , 1991

ISBN

0-472-88002-0

0-472-12802-7

0-939512-41-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (1 online resource xi, 170 pages.)

Collana

Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies ; ; no. 5

Altri autori (Persone)

Senshi, Princess, daughter of Murakami, Emperor of Japan,  <964-1035.>

Disciplina

895.6/114

Soggetti

Buddhism in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes the text of Hosshin Wakashū.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-164) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Prologue -- Part One: The Great Kamo Priestess -- Part Two: A Reading of Hosshin Wakashū -- Epilogue -- Appendix: The Text of Hosshin Wakashū -- List of Characters for Names and Terms -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

Senshi was born in 964 and died in 1035, in the Heian period of Japanese history (794–1185). Most of the poems discussed here are what may loosely be called Buddhist poems, since they deal with Buddhist scriptures, practices, and ideas. For this reason, most of them have been treated as examples of a category or subgenre of waka called Shakkyoka, “Buddhist poems.
Yet many Shakkyoka are more like other poems in the waka canon than they are unlike them. In the case of Senshi’s “Buddhist poems,” their language links them to the traditions of secular verse. Moreover, the poems use the essentially secular public literary language of waka to address and express serious and relatively private religious concerns and aspirations. In reading Senshi’s poems, it is as important to think about their relationship to the traditions and conventions of waka and to other waka texts as it is to think about their relationship to Buddhist thoughts, practices, and texts.
The Buddhist Poetry of the Great Kamo Priestess creates a context for



the reading of Senshi’s poems by presenting what is known and what has been thought about her and them. As such, it is a vital source for any reader of Senshi and other literature of the Heian period.