Just Living – Poems & Prose by the Japanese Monk Tonna : Poems and Prose of the Japanese Monk Tonna
by
Tonna
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Format
Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Translations from the Asian Classics
ISBN-10
0231125526
ISBN-13
9780231125529
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Imprint
Columbia University Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Nov 21st, 2002
Print length
208 Pages
Weight
404 grams
Dimensions
13.70 x 23.50 x 1.90 cms
Product Classification:
Poetry / poems by individual poetsPoetry by individual poetsAnthologiesAnthologies (non-poetry)
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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".
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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