Heart's Flower : The Life and Poetry of Shinkei / Esperanza Ramirez-Christensen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ramirez-Christensen, Esperanza, Author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (492 p.)

Place of Publication:

Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, [2022]

Language Note:

In English.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Acknowledgments

Contents

Abbreviations

Introduction

PART ONE. Heart's Flower: A Shinkei Literary Biography

1. Prologue: "The Seed of the Heart"

2. "A Stepchild in the Past, Now an Orphan": Shotetsu and Shinkei

3. Rising Star on the Brink of War

4. The Sorrows of Exile

5. Traveler-Recluse

6. "Bone-Withered Trees"

PART TWO. Gems of the Mind-Heart: A Shinkei Reader

I. Hokku and Tsukeku

II. Shinkei Alone and with Other Voices: Two Hundred-Verse Sequences

III. One Hundred Poems

Epilogue

Appendix: The Two Sequences Without Commentary

Reference Matter

Notes

Bibliography

Character List

Index of First Lines

Subject Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 31. Jan 2022)

ISBN:

1-5036-2371-8

OCLC:

1294424185