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The Buddhist Poetry of the Great Kamo Priestess - Daisaiin Senshi and Hosshin Wakashu (Paperback)
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The Buddhist Poetry of the Great Kamo Priestess - Daisaiin Senshi and Hosshin Wakashu (Paperback)
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies
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Discovery Miles 5 170
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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.
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