was a
Japanese
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* Japanese language, spoken mainly in Japan
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Buddhist monk of the
Tendai
, also known as the Tendai Lotus School (天台法華宗 ''Tendai hokke shū,'' sometimes just "''hokke shū''") is a Mahāyāna Buddhist tradition (with significant esoteric elements) officially established in Japan in 806 by the Japanese m ...
school. He was a scholar, editor and a literary critic.
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His major work, ''Man'yōshū chūshaku,'' was completed in 1269. This was a treatise on the collected poems in the ''
Man'yōshū'' anthology.
His work was instrumental in a process of rediscovering the original meaning of this seminal work of Japanese poetry.
Selected work
Sengaku's published writings encompass 9 works in 12 publications in 1 language and 53 library holdings.
WorldCat Identities
仙覚 b. 1203
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* (1269); Akihiro Satake, ed. (1981).
OCLC 23315980
* (1709
OCLC 069224675
Notes
References
* Nussbaum, Louis Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005). ''Japan Encyclopedia.'' Cambridge: Harvard University Press
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OCLC 48943301
Further reading
* Shimura, Shirō. (1999). . Tōkyo: Shintensha,
Japanese Buddhist clergy
Tendai
1203 births
1272 deaths
Kamakura period Buddhist clergy
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