Just Living

Poems and Prose of the Japanese Monk Tonna
Erscheinungsjahr 2002
ISBN: 978-0-231-12552-9
Verlag: Columbia University Press

Buch, Englisch, 208 Seiten, Format (B × H): 235 mm x 137 mm, Gewicht: 404 g

Reihe: Translations from the Asian Classics

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tonna

Carter, Steven D.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Ost- & Südostasiatische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Einzelne Sprachen & Sprachfamilien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

AcknowledgmentsIntroductionThe PoemsFrom A Frog at the Bottom of a Well: SelectionsGlossary of Important Names and PlacesSources of the PoemsIndex of First Lines

Über Autor(innen)

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 the author of Unforgotten Dreams, Waiting for the Wind, and The Road to Komatsubara, and editor of Traditional Japanese Poetry.