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The Journal of Socho (Hardcover)
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The Journal of Socho (Hardcover)
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"The Journal of Socho" is one of the most individual self-portraits
in the literary history of medieval Japan. Its author, Saiokuken
Socho (1448-1532)--the preeminent linked-verse ("renga") poet of
his time--was an eyewitness to Japan's violent transition from the
medieval to the early modern age. Written between 1522 and 1527,
during the Age of the Country at War ("Sengoku jidai"), his journal
provides a vivid portrayal of cultural life in the capital and in
the provinces, together with descriptions of battles and great
warrior families, the dangers of travel through war-torn
countryside, and the plight of the poor.
The journal records four of Socho's journeys between Kyoto and
Suruga Province, where he served as the poet laureate of the
Imagawa house, as well as several shorter excursions and periods of
rest at various hermitages. The diverse upbringing of its author--a
companion of nobles and warlords, a student of the orthodox poetic
neoclassicism of the "renga" master Sogi, and a devotee of the
iconoclastic Zen prelate Ikkyu--afforded him rich insights into the
cultural life of the period.
"The Journal of Socho" is remarkable for its breadth and freshness
of observation, whether of the activities of literary men and the
affairs of great courtiers and daimyo or of the daily lives of
local warriors and commoners. This variety of cultural detail is
matched by the journal's wealth of prose genres: travel diary,
eremitic writing, historical chronicle, conversation, and
correspondence. In addition, Socho has given us more than 600
verses that together illustrate most of the principal poetic genres
of the time: "renga," "waka," "choka," "wakan renku," and comic or
unorthodox "haikai" verses.
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