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...
Table des matières
Acknowledgments
Introduction
The Poems
From A Frog at the Bottom of a Well: Selections
Glossary of Important Names and Places
Sources of the Poems
Index of First Lines
A propos de l’auteur
Steven D. Carter is professor of Japanese and chair of the department of East Asian languages and literatures at the University of California at Irvine. He is t...