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  • 25 - Hyakunin isshuand the popularization of classical poetry

  • from Part III - The medieval period (1185–1600)
  • Edited by Haruo Shirane, Columbia University, New York, Tomi Suzuki, Columbia University, New York, David Lurie, Columbia University, New York
  • Book:
    The Cambridge History of Japanese Literature
    Published online:
    05 January 2016
    Print publication:
    17 December 2015, pp 256-258

  • Summary

    The three most frequently commented texts of the classical literary canon are Kokin wakashu or KKS, Ise monogatari or The Tales of Ise, and Genji monogatari or The Tale of Genji. Imperial waka anthologies for the three centuries after KKS were ignored by commentators until the eighteenth century; the same is true for The Tale of Sagoromo, a narrative fiction the waka of which were considered comparable to those of Genji in late Heian and Kamakura times. One factor must be that KKS and Tales of Ise themselves incorporate distinctive forms of commentary. KKS can be defined in fact as a corpus of cited poems framed by two kinds of editorial comments and two "prefaces". The earliest extant commentaries on The Tales of Ise inclined toward extravagant allegoresis incorporating strains of Esoteric and Tantric Buddhism and Shinto that flourished in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, often intertwined with heterodox KKS commentaries of a similar bent.

  • 35 - Noh drama theory from Zeami to Zenchiku

  • from Part III - The medieval period (1185–1600)
  • Edited by Haruo Shirane, Columbia University, New York, Tomi Suzuki, Columbia University, New York, David Lurie, Columbia University, New York
  • Book:
    The Cambridge History of Japanese Literature
    Published online:
    05 January 2016
    Print publication:
    17 December 2015, pp 340-346

  • Summary

    Dating from the late Nara period, Fujiwara no Hamanari's Kakyo hyoshiki is regarded as the oldest extant karonsho. Written in kanbun, it is heavily indebted to Chinese poetic theory, particularly that of the Six Dynasties period. The Kokin wakashu was the first anthology of Japanese poetry to be compiled by imperial commission. The next major karon text after Tsurayuki's Kokinshu preface is the Shinsen zuino of Fujiwara no Kinto, the leading waka poet of his age and a noted polymath whose talents extended to poetry in kanbun and court music. The poet Minamoto no Toshiyori is thought to have completed his lengthy treatise Toshiyori zuino about a century after Kinto was at the height of his influence. The Rokujo house flourished for almost a century, and its members produced a number of poetic treatises, the best known of which are the Ogisho and Fukurozoshi. Shunzei's son Teika occupies a uniquely influential position in the history of classical Japanese literature.