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With a history spanning 1500 years, waka is much more than a revered literary form. From the visual arts to religion, from bookmaking to theater and popular culture, there is no branch of Japanese culture that was not fundamentally influenced or enriched by waka. Written by leading experts in their field, the chapters in this volume provide compact and agile introductions to waka’s interactions with other arts and practices, bringing to light the magnitude of waka’s contribution to Japanese cultural history. General readers will enjoy the sheer breadth of genres and practices covered in the volume, while educators will find a convenient resource to approach waka from a variety of disciplinary and thematic angles.
Price: $183.00
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 5 Japan
Publication Date:
07 January 2027
ISBN: 9789004774926
Format: Hardcover
Gian Piero Persiani is Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. His book Poets, Patrons, and the Public: Poetry as Cultural Phenomenon in Courtly Japan was published by Brill in 2025.
Christina Laffin is Associate Professor in the Department of Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia and author of Rewriting Medieval Japanese Women: Politics, Personality, and Literary Production in the Life of Nun Abutsu (University of Hawai‘i Press, 2013).
Gustav Heldt is Professor of Japanese Literature at the University of Virginia and author of The Pursuit of Harmony: Poetry and Power in Early Heian Japan (Cornell East Asian Program, 2010) and Navigating Narratives: Tsurayuki's Tosa Diary as History and Fiction (Harvard University Asia Center, 2024).
Christina Laffin is Associate Professor in the Department of Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia and author of Rewriting Medieval Japanese Women: Politics, Personality, and Literary Production in the Life of Nun Abutsu (University of Hawai‘i Press, 2013).
Gustav Heldt is Professor of Japanese Literature at the University of Virginia and author of The Pursuit of Harmony: Poetry and Power in Early Heian Japan (Cornell East Asian Program, 2010) and Navigating Narratives: Tsurayuki's Tosa Diary as History and Fiction (Harvard University Asia Center, 2024).