Research Catalog

Poetry as image : the visual culture of waka in sixteenth-century Japan / by Tomoko Sakomura.

Title

Poetry as image : the visual culture of waka in sixteenth-century Japan / by Tomoko Sakomura.

Author

Sakomura, Tomoko

Publication

Leiden : Brill, 2016.
©2016

Items in the Library & Off-site

Filter by

1 Item

Item details
Status	Vol/Date	Format	Access	Call Number	Item Location
Request for On-site Use Request Scan Not available - Please for assistance.	c.2	Text	Request in advance	PL758.83 .S25 2016 c.2	Off-site

Details

Description

xi, 260 pages : colour illustrations; 26 cm.

Summary

"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. The volume explores key aspects of waka culture--inscription, presentation, transmission, and vocabulary--as manifested in visual representations of noted poems, sites, and poets such as the "thirty-six poetic immortals" (sanjūrokkasen). Looking closely at the visual and material language of waka artifacts produced at the intersections of the sociopolitical spheres of the imperial court and the warrior regimes of the Toyotomi and Tokugawa, Poetry as Image investigates how they functioned as elegant instruments of elite self-representation and promoted the courtly present." -- Publisher's description

Series Statement

Japanese visual culture ; Volume 16

Uniform Title

Japanese visual culture v. 16.

Subject

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Illustrated works
History.
Illustrated works.

Note

Formerly CIP.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 244-251) and index.

Processing Action (note)

committed to retain

ISBN

9789004292482
9004292489

OCLC

935450227
SCSB-10417991

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library