Ueda Juzō
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- November 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780824834609
- eISBN:
- 9780824870546
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Hawai'i Press
- DOI:
- 10.21313/hawaii/9780824834609.003.0006
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Asian Studies
This chapter states that the representations of things (mono) that are expressed by words in poetry and other literary arts tend to be remarkably vague from a visual standpoint. At the same time, ...
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This chapter states that the representations of things (mono) that are expressed by words in poetry and other literary arts tend to be remarkably vague from a visual standpoint. At the same time, however, no matter how vague it is from a visual point of view, when the shape of things is expressed in words, it becomes sufficiently clear. In this way, the function of the artistic spirit is seen from a higher perspective—it sets up one aspect of reality. The variety of topics in Japanese short poems (tanka) bespeaks the splendid diversity of the development of this artistic spirit. Moreover, what is spoken in tanka is the greatness and depth of the spirit's transcendental power of imagination—a spirit that unifies what speaks with what is spoken about.Less
This chapter states that the representations of things (mono) that are expressed by words in poetry and other literary arts tend to be remarkably vague from a visual standpoint. At the same time, however, no matter how vague it is from a visual point of view, when the shape of things is expressed in words, it becomes sufficiently clear. In this way, the function of the artistic spirit is seen from a higher perspective—it sets up one aspect of reality. The variety of topics in Japanese short poems (tanka) bespeaks the splendid diversity of the development of this artistic spirit. Moreover, what is spoken in tanka is the greatness and depth of the spirit's transcendental power of imagination—a spirit that unifies what speaks with what is spoken about.
David Goldstein
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- February 2021
- ISBN:
- 9781904113669
- eISBN:
- 9781800340183
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3828/liverpool/9781904113669.003.0011
- Subject:
- Religion, Judaism
This chapter focuses on the poetry of Joseph Ibn Zabara. Joseph ben Meir Ibn Zabara was born in Barcelona in 1140. He appears to have lived there for most of his life, following the profession of ...
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This chapter focuses on the poetry of Joseph Ibn Zabara. Joseph ben Meir Ibn Zabara was born in Barcelona in 1140. He appears to have lived there for most of his life, following the profession of physician. His main work, Sefer Sha’ashuim (The Book of Delights), is the first major Hebrew imitation of the Arabic makam literature, i.e. a romantic collection of stories attached to a main theme. His book is in rhymed prose interspersed with short poems, and contains popular fables as well as long dissertations on medical and anatomical details. The chapter then presents Joseph’s poem The Doctor. The date of his death is not known.Less
This chapter focuses on the poetry of Joseph Ibn Zabara. Joseph ben Meir Ibn Zabara was born in Barcelona in 1140. He appears to have lived there for most of his life, following the profession of physician. His main work, Sefer Sha’ashuim (The Book of Delights), is the first major Hebrew imitation of the Arabic makam literature, i.e. a romantic collection of stories attached to a main theme. His book is in rhymed prose interspersed with short poems, and contains popular fables as well as long dissertations on medical and anatomical details. The chapter then presents Joseph’s poem The Doctor. The date of his death is not known.
Donald Keene
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- November 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780231164887
- eISBN:
- 9780231535311
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7312/columbia/9780231164887.003.0013
- Subject:
- Literature, Poetry
This book examines how Masaoka Shiki saved the dismal condition of Japanese poetry in the nineteenth century. In 1867, the year that Shiki was born, Japanese literature was at one of its lowest ...
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This book examines how Masaoka Shiki saved the dismal condition of Japanese poetry in the nineteenth century. In 1867, the year that Shiki was born, Japanese literature was at one of its lowest points. The quality of all varieties of literature had steadily declined. The haiku and tanka were all but dead when Shiki began to write his poetry and criticism. The best poets of the time had lost interest in short poems. Shiki and his disciples, finding new possibilities of expression within the traditional forms, preserved them. Shiki left behind a staggering amount of writing; his zenshū (complete works) consists of twenty-two volumes of small print, each over 500 pages. Most of his best works were written during his last seven years before his death in 1902. Today, the millions of Japanese (and many non-Japanese) who compose haiku and tanka belong to the School of Shiki, and even poets who write entirely different forms of poetry have learned from him. He was the true founder of modern Japanese poetry.Less
This book examines how Masaoka Shiki saved the dismal condition of Japanese poetry in the nineteenth century. In 1867, the year that Shiki was born, Japanese literature was at one of its lowest points. The quality of all varieties of literature had steadily declined. The haiku and tanka were all but dead when Shiki began to write his poetry and criticism. The best poets of the time had lost interest in short poems. Shiki and his disciples, finding new possibilities of expression within the traditional forms, preserved them. Shiki left behind a staggering amount of writing; his zenshū (complete works) consists of twenty-two volumes of small print, each over 500 pages. Most of his best works were written during his last seven years before his death in 1902. Today, the millions of Japanese (and many non-Japanese) who compose haiku and tanka belong to the School of Shiki, and even poets who write entirely different forms of poetry have learned from him. He was the true founder of modern Japanese poetry.
Robin Darwall-Smith
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- June 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780198865421
- eISBN:
- 9780191897771
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780198865421.003.0011
- Subject:
- History, History of Ideas
This chapter looks at Geoffrey Neate's present edition on the account of Elizabeth Sheppard of Oxford in January of 1737–8, written under the pen-name of ‘Shepilinda’. The main part of Shepilinda's ...
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This chapter looks at Geoffrey Neate's present edition on the account of Elizabeth Sheppard of Oxford in January of 1737–8, written under the pen-name of ‘Shepilinda’. The main part of Shepilinda's manuscript is a tour of the Colleges made in the company of an older woman who is nicknamed ‘Scrippy’, and who is the dedicatee of the manuscript. The tour is largely arranged topographically, starting with Worcester in the west and ending with Magdalen in the east. There are then accounts of the academic halls, including the self-consciously bogus one of ‘Frog Hall’, which is actually Shepilinda's family home. This part of the manuscript ends with a description of the Bodleian Library, and the traditions associated with May Day and St. Scholastica's Day. The second, and shorter, part of her manuscript comprises some short poems.Less
This chapter looks at Geoffrey Neate's present edition on the account of Elizabeth Sheppard of Oxford in January of 1737–8, written under the pen-name of ‘Shepilinda’. The main part of Shepilinda's manuscript is a tour of the Colleges made in the company of an older woman who is nicknamed ‘Scrippy’, and who is the dedicatee of the manuscript. The tour is largely arranged topographically, starting with Worcester in the west and ending with Magdalen in the east. There are then accounts of the academic halls, including the self-consciously bogus one of ‘Frog Hall’, which is actually Shepilinda's family home. This part of the manuscript ends with a description of the Bodleian Library, and the traditions associated with May Day and St. Scholastica's Day. The second, and shorter, part of her manuscript comprises some short poems.
