The Wind from Vulture Peak : The Buddhification of Japanese Waka in the Heian Period / Stephen D. Miller ; translations with Patrick Donnelly.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Miller, Stephen D., 1949- author.

Contributor:

Donnelly, Patrick, 1956- translator.

Series:

Cornell East Asia Series ; 166

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Buddhist literature, Japanese.

Buddhist literature, Japanese--History and criticism.

Waka--History and criticism.

Waka.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (480 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, New York : Cornell University East Asia Program, [2013]

Summary:

The Wind from Vulture Peak addresses the history of the gradual incorporation of Buddhist concepts into Heian waka poetry and the development among court poets of a belief in the production of that poetry as a Buddhist practice in itself.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

1 Introduction

2 “Buddhistic” Waka and buddhist Kanshi —man’yōshū to gosenshū

3 Buddhist waka in the shūishū (1005–1007)

4 Shakkyō-ka in the goshūishū (1086)

5 The abbreviated imperial poetry collections from the insei era — kinyōshū (1127) and shikashū (ca. 1151)

6 The “shakkyō-ka” book in the senzaishū—the creation of a literary mārga

7 The “shakkyō-ka” book in the senzaishū

Afterword

Appendix

A Partial Character Glossary of Chinese, Japanese , and Korean Words

Bibliography

Index of Authors

About the Authors

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781933947761

1933947764

OCLC:

927384712