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The Poetics of Motoori Norinaga - A Hermeneutical Journey (Hardcover)
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The Poetics of Motoori Norinaga - A Hermeneutical Journey (Hardcover)
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One of Japan's most renowned intellectuals, Motoori Norinaga
(1730-1801) is perhaps best known for his notion of mono no aware,
a detailed description of the workings of emotions as the
precondition for the poetic act. As a poet and a theoretician of
poetry, Norinaga had a keen eye for etymologies and other
archaeological practices aimed at recovering the depth and richness
of the Japanese language. This volume contains his major works on
the Yamato region - the heartland of Japanese culture - including
one of his most famous poetic diaries, ""The Sedge Hat Diary""
(""Sugagasa no Nikki""), translated into English here for the first
time. Written in 1772 while Norinaga journeyed through Yamato and
the Yoshino area, ""The Sedge Hat Diary"" was composed in the style
of Heian prose and is interspersed with fifty-five poems. It offers
important insights into Norinaga the poet, the scholar of ancient
texts, the devout believer in Shinto deities, and the archaeologist
searching for traces of ancient capitals, palaces, shrines, and
imperial tombs of the pre-Nara period. In this piece Norinaga
presents Yoshino as a ""common poetic space"" that readers must
inhabit to develop the ""common sense"" that makes them live
ethically in the poet's ideal society. Norinaga's ideal society is
deeply imbued with the knowledge of poetry and the understanding of
emotions as evidenced in the translation of Norinaga's twenty-six
songs on aware (pathos) also included here. The rest of the volume
offers translations of several essays by the poet that shed further
light on the places he visited in Yoshino and on the main topic of
his scholarly interests: the sound of the uta (songs) from his
beloved Yamato. An introductory essay on Norinaga's poetics serves
as a guide through the dense arguments he developed both
practically in his poems and theoretically in his essays.
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