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Shin Kokin Wakashū
The , also known in abbreviated form as the or even conversationally as the Shin Kokin, is the eighth imperial anthology of waka poetry compiled by the Japanese court, beginning with the ''Kokin Wakashū'' circa 905 and ending with the '' Shinshokukokin Wakashū'' circa 1439. The name can be literally translated as "New Collection of Ancient and Modern Poems" and bears an intentional resemblance to that of the first anthology. Together with the ''Man'yōshū'' and the '' Kokinshū'', the ''Shin Kokinshū'' is widely considered to be one of the three most influential poetic anthologies in Japanese literary history. It was commissioned in 1201 by the retired emperor Go-Toba (r. 1183–1198), who established a new Bureau of Poetry at his Nijō palace with eleven Fellows,Brower 8 headed by Fujiwara no Yoshitsune, for the purpose of conducting poetry contests and compiling the anthology. Despite its emphasis on contemporary poets, the ''Shin Kokinshū'' covered a broader range of poet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Honkadori
In Japanese poetry, is an allusion within a poem to an older poem which would be generally recognized by its potential readers. Honkadori possesses qualities of yūgen and in Japanese art. The concept emerged in the 12th century during the Kamakura period. Honkadori is one of several terms in Japanese poetry used to describe allusion, another being ."''anecdotal allusions to prose literature' "''borrowing words and phrases from earlier prose works'/ref> Context This style of quoting is a common trope in many ancient Japanese works of literature including stories such as '' the Tale of Genji'' and poems such as those found in the '' Kokinshū'' and the '' Shin Kokinshū''. In a narrative story, honkadori are often found in the form of a poem spoken by one of the characters. In a waka poem, this is usually the first line of the poem. Honkadori is not merely a reference to another poem even though lines are sometimes copied word for word. The use of honkadori attempts to affec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japanese Poetry Anthologies
This is a list of significant Japanese poetry anthologies. Waka Starting with the '' Kokin Wakashū'', there were 21 official anthologies, known collectively as the . Nara period chronicles (710 to 794) *''Man'yōshū'' the oldest anthology in Japanese, c.785, 20 manuscript scrolls, 4,516 poems (when the tanka envoys to the various chōka are numbered as separate poems), Ōtomo no Yakamochi was probably the last to edit the ''Man'yōshū''. It is not organized in any particular way (most metadata is supplied by headnotes), and the poems are written in a Japanese version of the Chinese monosyllabic pronunciation for the Chinese characters. Heian period (794 to 1185) *Imperial waka anthologies: anthologies as a national project. Each anthology reflected the taste of time and with loyal dignity became canons for contemporaries and those who followed. The earliest three anthologies are often called ''Sandaishū'', Three Major Anthologies, and earliest eight ''Hachidaishū'', Ei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harvard Journal Of Asiatic Studies
The ''Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies'' (HJAS) is an English-language scholarly journal published by the Harvard-Yenching Institute. ''HJAS'' features articles and book reviews of current scholarship in East Asian Studies, focusing on Chinese, Japanese, and Korean history, literature and religion, with occasional coverage of politics and linguistics. It has been called "still Americas's leading sinological journal." History The ''Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies'' was founded in 1936 by the Russian-French scholar Serge Elisséeff under the auspices of the Harvard-Yenching Institute, an independent, non-profit organization founded in 1928 to further the spread of knowledge and scholarship on East and Southeast Asia. Elisséeff's wide range of knowledge came to be reflected in the diverse character of the journal during the twenty-one years he served as its editor (1936-1957). Since the days of Elisséeff, the journal has been guided by: * John Bishop (editor), 1958 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Honkadori
In Japanese poetry, is an allusion within a poem to an older poem which would be generally recognized by its potential readers. Honkadori possesses qualities of yūgen and in Japanese art. The concept emerged in the 12th century during the Kamakura period. Honkadori is one of several terms in Japanese poetry used to describe allusion, another being ."''anecdotal allusions to prose literature' "''borrowing words and phrases from earlier prose works'/ref> Context This style of quoting is a common trope in many ancient Japanese works of literature including stories such as '' the Tale of Genji'' and poems such as those found in the '' Kokinshū'' and the '' Shin Kokinshū''. In a narrative story, honkadori are often found in the form of a poem spoken by one of the characters. In a waka poem, this is usually the first line of the poem. Honkadori is not merely a reference to another poem even though lines are sometimes copied word for word. The use of honkadori attempts to affec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
13th Century In Poetry
Europe Events * The Sicilian School, Dolce Stil Novo, and later the Tuscan School mark the emergence of literary Italian Works * ''Huon of Bordeaux'' written ( 1216 to 1268) * '' Nibelunglied'' written approximately 1180–1210 * Lucas de Tuy and others, ''Chronicon Mundi'' ("Great Chronicle of the World"); Spain * ''King Horn'', the oldest known English verse romance, is written around 1225 * ''Poema de Fernán González'' written between 1250 and 1266 * ''Le Récit d'un ménestrel de Reims'' written around 1260 * ''Roman de la Rose'' written by Guillaume de Lorris (around 1230) and Jean de Meun (around 1275) * The Codex Regius, the manuscript in which the Poetic Edda is preserved, is written ( 1270s) * Heinrich der Vogler compiles ''Dietrichs Flucht'' around 1280 * ''The Owl and the Nightingale'' perhaps composed around 1280 (but may be up to a century later) * ''Havelok the Dane'' written in Middle English ( 1285–1290) * ''Liber sex festorum beatae Virginis'' written by Got ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japanese Poetry
Japanese poetry is poetry typical of Japan, or written, spoken, or chanted in the Japanese language, which includes Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese, and Modern Japanese, as well as poetry in Japan which was written in the Chinese language or ''ryūka'' from the Okinawa Islands: it is possible to make a more accurate distinction between Japanese poetry written in Japan or by Japanese people in other languages versus that written in the Japanese language by speaking of Japanese-language poetry. Much of the literary record of Japanese poetry begins when Japanese poets encountered Chinese poetry during the Tang dynasty (although the Chinese classic anthology of poetry, ''Shijing'', was well known by the literati of Japan by the 6th century). Under the influence of the Chinese poets of this era Japanese began to compose poetry in Chinese '' kanshi''); and, as part of this tradition, poetry in Japan tended to be intimately associated with pictorial painting, par ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Japanese Poetry Anthologies
This is a list of significant Japanese poetry anthologies. Waka Starting with the '' Kokin Wakashū'', there were 21 official anthologies, known collectively as the . Nara period chronicles (710 to 794) *'' Man'yōshū'' the oldest anthology in Japanese, c. 785, 20 manuscript scrolls, 4,516 poems (when the tanka envoys to the various chōka are numbered as separate poems), Ōtomo no Yakamochi was probably the last to edit the ''Man'yōshū''. It is not organized in any particular way (most metadata is supplied by headnotes), and the poems are written in a Japanese version of the Chinese monosyllabic pronunciation for the Chinese characters. Heian period (794 to 1185) *Imperial waka anthologies: anthologies as a national project. Each anthology reflected the taste of time and with loyal dignity became canons for contemporaries and those who followed. The earliest three anthologies are often called ''Sandaishū'', Three Major Anthologies, and earliest eight ''Hachidaishū'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1205 In Poetry
Events Works * Fujiwara no Teika (whose first name is sometimes romanized as ''Sadaie''), Fujiwara Ariie, Fujiwara Ietaka ( Karyū), the priest Jakuren, Minamoto Michitomo, and Asukai Masatsune, editors, ''Shin Kokin Wakashū'' (also spelled "Shinkokinshu") the eighth Japanese imperial waka poetry anthology, which had been ordered in 1201 by former Japanese Emperor Go-Toba. Its name apparently aimed to show the relation and counterpart to Kokin Wakashū, the first imperial poetry anthology. Births * Tikkana (died 1288), second poet of “Trinity of Poets (Kavi Trayam)” that translated Mahabharatamu into Telugu over a period of few centuries Deaths * Peire Vidal, (born 1175), Occitan troubadour 13th-century poetry Poetry Poetry (derived from the Greek '' poiesis'', "making"), also called verse, is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language − such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre − to evoke meanings ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Princess Shikishi
Princess Shikishi or Shokushi ( ''Shikishi/Shokushi Naishinnō'') (1149 – March 1, 1201) was a Japanese classical poet, who lived during the late Heian and early Kamakura periods. She was the third daughter of Emperor Go-Shirakawa (1127–1192, reigned 1155–1158). In 1159, Shikishi, who did not marry, went into service at the Kamo Shrine in Kyoto. She left the shrine after some time, and in her later years became a Buddhist nun. Shikishi is credited with 49 poems in the ''Shin-Kokin Shū'', a collection of some 2,000 popular works compiled in the early Kamakura period, and many other poems included in the '' Senzai Waka Shū'', compiled in the late Heian period to commemorate Emperor Go-Shirakawa's ascension, and later compilations. The poet's name is sometimes also pronounced ''Shokushi'' (both are ''on-yomi'' readings). Modern given names using the same characters include ''Shikiko'' (mix of '' on-'' and ''kun-yomi'') and ''Noriko'' (pure ''kun-yomi''). Her title, '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fujiwara No Shunzei
was a Japanese poet, courtier, and Buddhist monk of the late Heian period. He was also known as Fujiwara no Toshinari"...there is the further problem, the rendition of the name in romanized form. Teika probably referred to himself as Sadaie, and his father probably called himself Toshinari, but the Sino-Japanese versions of their names were used by their contemporaries, and this practice is still observed." or Shakua (釈阿) and when younger (1123–67) as Akihiro (顕広). He was noted for his innovations in the waka poetic form and compiling the '' Senzai Wakashū'' ("''Collection of a Thousand Years''"), the seventh imperial anthology of waka poetry. Early life Fujiwara no Shunzei was born in 1114. He was a descendant of the statesman Fujiwara no Michinaga and son of of the of the influential aristocratic and poetic Fujiwara clan. His father died when he was ten years old and he was adopted by . As Akiyori's adopted son, he took the name ''Akihiro'' (顕広), but in 116 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jien
was a Japanese poet, historian, and Buddhist monk. Biography Jien was the son of Fujiwara no Tadamichi, a member of the Fujiwara clan of powerful aristocrats. His brother was the future regent Fujiwara no Kanezane. Jien became a Tendai monk early in his life, entering Shōren-in at age eleven. He first took the Buddhist name ''Dokaei'', and later changed it to ''Jien''. He eventually rose to the rank of , leader of the Tendai. Jien eventually began to study and write Japanese history, his purpose being to "enlighten people who find it hard to understand the vicissitudes of life". His masterpiece, completed around 1220, was humbly entitled, ''Gukanshō'', which translates as ''Jottings of a Fool''. In it he tried to analyze the facts of Japanese history. The ''Gukanshō'' held a '' mappo'' and therefore pessimistic view of his age, the Feudal Period, and claimed that it was a period of religious decline and saw the disintegration of civilization. This is the viewpoint gene ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
