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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kamens, Edward, 1952- author.

Contributor:

University of Michigan. Center for Japanese Studies.

Series:

Michigan monograph series in Japanese studies ; no. 5.

Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies ; no. 5

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Senshi, Princess, daughter of Murakami, Emperor of Japan, 964-1035. Hoshin wakashū.

Senshi.

Buddhism in literature.

Physical Description:

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

Place of Publication:

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

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Includes the text of Hosshin Wakashū.

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

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Description based on information from the publisher.

Contains:

Senshi, Princess, daughter of Murakami, Emperor of Japan, 964-1035. Hosshin wakashū. 1990.

ISBN:

9780472880027

0472880020

9780472128020

0472128027

9780939512416

0939512416

OCLC:

1184509429

Access Restriction:

Unrestricted online access