The Heian court of the late ninth and early tenth centuries
represents one of the most innovative and influential periods in
the history of Japanese poetry. It witnessed the creation of
entirely new forms of verse in poetry matches, screen poems, and
officially sponsored anthologies, none of which had a precedent in
earlier times. At the apex of these phenomena lay compilation of
the Kokin wakashu (Collection of Poems Ancient and Modern), whose
status as the first imperial anthology of native poetry would make
it integral to Japanese court culture for centuries afterward.
Despite the enormous historical significance of these new forms of
poetry and the marked interest displayed by powerful individuals in
patronizing them, however, little sustained attention has been paid
to the ties between the practices of producing and performing verse
and processes of economic, ideological, political, and social
change in this period. This book is intended to address such issues
through an investigation of the ways in which different members of
the court community deployed poems in the pursuit of power.
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