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Just Living
Steven D. . Ed(S): Carter
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Description for Just Living
A selection of writings by Tonna (1289-1372), a medieval Buddhist poet-monk, very little of whose work has been translated before. The anthology contains translations of 134 uta, 16 linked-verse couplets and selections from a prose narrative, "From a Frog at the Bottom of a Well". Editor(s): Carter, Steven D. Series: Translations from the Asian Classics. Num Pages: 208 pages, notes, glossary. BIC Classification: DCF; DQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 135 x 20. Weight in Grams: 272.
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) ... Read more
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) ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
Series
Translations from the Asian Classics
Number of Pages
208
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231125529
SKU
V9780231125529
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About Steven D. . Ed(S): Carter
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.
Reviews for Just Living
These translations seem beautifully precise and their number gives us the clearest profile yet of the neglected poet. Japan Times Carter's pristine and graceful translations have guided so many readers through untrammeled territory in Eastern religions. Japanese poet Tonna, for example, wrote in the classical, eliteuta form in the late 13th and early 14th centuries.
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