Song in an Age of Discord - The Journal of Socho and Poetic Life in Late Medieval Japan

About the author

H. Mack Horton is Associate Professor of Classical Japanese Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the translator of The Journal of Socho.

Summary

This exploration of the life and times of a poet in late medieval Japan is a companion volume to the author's translation of "The Journal of Socho", the travel diary and poetic memoir of Saiokuken Socho (1448-1532), the preeminent linked-verse (renga) poet of his generation.

Product details

• Authors: H Mack Horton, H. Mack Horton
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.05.2002
• EAN: 9780804732840
• ISBN: 978-0-8047-3284-0
• No. of pages: 448
• Weight: 885 g
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies