The medieval Buddhist poet-monk Tonna (1289--1372) was regarded
as the leading poet of his day and a prominent scholar and critic.
Despite his commoner status, he was assigned the task of acting as
compiler for an imperial anthology of poetry and counted a number
of prominent courtiers among his students and patrons. And yet his
works, which remained required reading for virtually all serious
poets in Japan for five hundred years after his death, have until
recently received little scholarly attention in either Japan or the
West. This anthology contains translations of 134 of Tonna's "uta"
(the classical poetic form) and 16 linked verse couplets ( "renga")
from his "Grass Hut Collection" and selections from a work of prose
criticism, "From a Frog at the Bottom of a Well," along with an
introduction and explanatory notes, a glossary of important names
and places, and a list of sources for the poems.
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