TY  - BOOK
AU  - Klein,Susan Blakeley
TI  - Allegories of Desire: Esoteric Literary Commentaries of Medieval Japan
T2  - Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series
SN  - 1684170389
AV  - PL833.I95 .K545 2002 
U1  - 895.6/12209 
PY  - 2003///
CY  - Cambridge, MA
PB  - Harvard University Asia Center
KW  - Waka
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Japanese poetry
KW  - 1185-1600
KW  - Buddhism and literature
N2  - 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
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