Linked Verse in Medieval Japan - History, Commentary, Performance

This book is the most comprehensive work in English on premodern Japanese linked verse (renga).

About the author

H. Mack Horton is Catherine and William L. Magistretti Chair of East Asian Languages and Cultures at University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Song in an Age of Discord: The Journal of Sôchô and Poetic Life in Late Medieval Japan (Stanford University Press, 2002), The Journal of Sôchô (Stanford University Press, 2002), and Traversing the Frontier: The Man'yôshû Account of a Japanese Mission to Silla in 736-37 (Harvard University Asia Center, 2012).

Summary

This book is the most comprehensive work in English on premodern Japanese linked verse (renga).

Product details

• Authors: H. Mack Horton, Horton H. Mack
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 03.06.2025
• EAN: 9780231191142
• ISBN: 978-0-231-19114-2
• No. of pages: 976
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Family; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Education, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval, HISTORY / Asia / Japan, LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Japanese, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Literary studies: poetry and poets