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This work is an anthology of 225 translated and annotated Sinitic poems (kanshi 漢詩) composed in public and private settings by nobles, courtiers, priests, and others during Japan’s Nara and Heian periods (710-1185). The authors have supplied detailed biographical notes on the sixty-nine poets represented and an overview of each collection from which the verse of this eminent and enduring genre has been drawn. The introduction provides historical background and discusses kanshi subgenres, themes, textual and rhetorical conventions, styles, and aesthetics, and sheds light on the socio-political milieu of the classical court, where Chinese served as the written language of officialdom and the preeminent medium for literary and scholarly activity among the male elite.
Price: $279.00
Pages: 474
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: East Asian Comparative Literature and Culture
Publication Date:
01 February 2019
ISBN: 9789004387195
Format: Hardcover
Collecting over two hundred poems composed by dozens of different poets over four and half centuries, this volume provides an unequaled perspective on the breadth of Sinitic poetry in early Japan. The thirteen source-texts employed here represent almost every substantial anthology that survives from the Nara and Heian periods (710–1185)... What the determined reader will nevertheless take away is a perspective of unprecedented breadth on the themes of this literary idiom and the authors for whom it continued to hold so much meaning even as vernacular genres were entering full flower. -Brian R. Steininger, Princeton University, Journal of the American Oriental Society, 141.4 (2021)
Judith N. Rabinovitch, Ph.D. (1981, Harvard University), is Karashima Tsukasa Professor Emerita of Japanese Language and Culture at the University of Montana. Her publications include monographs and other works on premodern kanshi (Sinitic verse), early war tales, and courtier diaries.
Timothy R. Bradstock, Ph.D. (1984, Harvard University), is Professor Emeritus of Chinese at the University of Montana. His published works range from studies and translations of premodern kanshi to the investigation of Chinese craft guilds of the Qing dynasty.