Poetry as Image: The Visual Culture of Waka in Sixteenth-Century Japan

The culture of Japanese poetry, waka, is richly visual. In Poetry as Image Tomoko Sakomura examines the ways the visual culture of waka in sixteenth-century Japan engages with practice and protocol developed over the course of the previous six centuries, and what these engagements reveal about the role of the past in cultural productions of the present.

About the author

Dr Tomoko Sakomura is Associate Professor of Art History, Swarthmore College. She is a specialist in Japanese art history whose work examines the relationship between word and image in the visual culture of late medieval Japan.

Product details

• Authors: Tomoko Sakomura
• Publisher: Brill
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 14.12.2015
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies
• EAN: 9789004292482
• ISBN: 978-90-04-29248-2
• Pages: 300
• Dimensions (packing): 20 x 25.8 x 2.2 cm
• Weight (packing): 1,075 g
• Series: Japanese Visual Culture > 16
• Subjects: Japan, ART / History / General, Art & Art Instruction, POETRY / Anthologies (multiple authors), ART / Asian / General, ca. 1500 bis zur Gegenwart