The pursuit of harmony : poetry and power in early Heian Japan

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The pursuit of harmony : poetry and power in early Heian Japan

Gustav Heldt

(Cornell East Asia series, 139)

East Asia Program, Cornell University, c2008

  • : hbk
  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 393-411) and index

Based on author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Columbia University, 2000

Text primarily in English with poems in romanized Japanese and English

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The Heian court of the late ninth and early tenth centuries represents one of the most innovative and influential periods in the history of Japanese poetry. It witnessed the creation of entirely new forms of verse in poetry matches, screen poems, and officially sponsored anthologies, none of which had a precedent in earlier times. At the apex of these phenomena lay compilation of the Kokin wakashu (Collection of Poems Ancient and Modern), whose status as the first imperial anthology of native poetry would make it integral to Japanese court culture for centuries afterward. Despite the enormous historical significance of these new forms of poetry and the marked interest displayed by powerful individuals in patronizing them, however, little sustained attention has been paid to the ties between the practices of producing and performing verse and processes of economic, ideological, political, and social change in this period. This book is intended to address such issues through an investigation of the ways in which different members of the court community deployed poems in the pursuit of power.

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