Allegories of Desire : Esoteric Literary Commentaries of Medieval Japan.
Klein, Susan Blakeley.
Allegories of Desire : Esoteric Literary Commentaries of Medieval Japan. - Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Asia Center, 2003. - 1 online resource (372 pages). - Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series ; v. 55 . - Harvard-Yenching Institute monograph series. .
One of the more intriguing developments within medieval Japanese literature is the incorporation into the teaching of waka poetry of the practices of initiation ceremonies and secret transmissions found in esoteric Buddhism. The main figure in this development was the obscure thirteenth-century poet Fujiwara Tameaki, grandson of the famous poet Fujiwara Teika and a priest in a tantric Buddhist sect. Tameaki's commentaries and teachings transformed secular text.
1684170389 9781684170388
Waka--History and criticism.
Japanese poetry--History and criticism.--1185-1600
Buddhism and literature.
PL833.I95 .K545 2002
895.6/12209
Allegories of Desire : Esoteric Literary Commentaries of Medieval Japan. - Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Asia Center, 2003. - 1 online resource (372 pages). - Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series ; v. 55 . - Harvard-Yenching Institute monograph series. .
One of the more intriguing developments within medieval Japanese literature is the incorporation into the teaching of waka poetry of the practices of initiation ceremonies and secret transmissions found in esoteric Buddhism. The main figure in this development was the obscure thirteenth-century poet Fujiwara Tameaki, grandson of the famous poet Fujiwara Teika and a priest in a tantric Buddhist sect. Tameaki's commentaries and teachings transformed secular text.
1684170389 9781684170388
Waka--History and criticism.
Japanese poetry--History and criticism.--1185-1600
Buddhism and literature.
PL833.I95 .K545 2002
895.6/12209