Just living: poems and prose by the Japanese monk Tonna
(2005)
Nonfiction
eBook
Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : Columbia University Press : Made available through hoopla, 2005
DESCRIPTION
1 online resource
ISBN/ISSN
9780231500777 (electronic bk.) MWT11860409, 0231500777 (electronic bk.) 11860409
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
One of the best scholar-translators in the field presents a selection of writings by Tonna (1289--1372), an outstanding medieval Buddhist poet-monk, very little of whose work has been translated until now. Tonna was regarded as the leading Nijō poet of his day and was known as one of the Four Deva Kings of the Waka. This anthology contains translations of 134 uta, 16 linked-verse couplets, and selections from a prose narrative, From a Frog at the Bottom of a Well, along with an introduction and explanatory notes, a glossary of important names and places, and a list of sources for the poems
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