{"product_id":"the-buddhist-poetry-of-the-great-kamo-priestess-daisaiin-senshi-and-hosshin-wakashu-paperback","title":"The Buddhist Poetry of the Great Kamo Priestess: Daisaiin Senshi and Hosshin Wakashu - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eEdward Kamens\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSenshi was born in 964 and died in 1035, in the Heian period of Japanese history (794-1185). Most of the poems discussed here are what may loosely be called Buddhist poems, since they deal with Buddhist scriptures, practices, and ideas. For this reason, most of them have been treated as examples of a category or subgenre of \u003ci\u003ewaka \u003c\/i\u003ecalled \u003ci\u003eShakkyoka\u003c\/i\u003e, \"Buddhist poems.\" Yet many \u003ci\u003eShakkyoka \u003c\/i\u003eare more like other poems in the \u003ci\u003ewaka \u003c\/i\u003ecanon than they are unlike them. In the case of Senshi's \"Buddhist poems,\" their language links them to the traditions of secular verse. Moreover, the poems use the essentially secular public literary language of \u003ci\u003ewaka \u003c\/i\u003eto address and express serious and relatively private religious concerns and aspirations. In reading Senshi's poems, it is as important to think about their relationship to the traditions and conventions of \u003ci\u003ewaka \u003c\/i\u003eand to other \u003ci\u003ewaka \u003c\/i\u003etexts as it is to think about their relationship to Buddhist thoughts, practices, and texts.\u003ci\u003eThe Buddhist Poetry of the Great Kamo Priestess \u003c\/i\u003ecreates a context for the reading of Senshi's poems by presenting what is known and what has been thought about her and them. As such, it is a vital source for any reader of Senshi and other literature of the Heian period.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eEdward Kamens is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Three Jewels: A Study and Translation of Minamoto Tamenori's \u003c\/i\u003eSanbōe (Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies, no. 2) and other studies of premodern Japanese prose and poetry. He is Assistant Professor in the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures at Yale University.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 184\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.42 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 19, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51788755206432,"sku":"9780472038312","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/e5e29623301658c397e3edf26eeee75e.webp?v=1780659231","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-buddhist-poetry-of-the-great-kamo-priestess-daisaiin-senshi-and-hosshin-wakashu-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}