Not seeing snow : : new views of Zen master Musō Soseki (1275-1351) / / by Molly Vallor.

• VerfasserIn: Vallor, Molly,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2019]
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's Japanese Studies Library 64.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (278 pages).

Not Seeing Snow: Musō Soseki and Medieval Japanese Zen offers a detailed look at a crucial yet sorely neglected figure in medieval Japan. It clarifies Musō’s far-reaching significance as a Buddhist leader, waka poet, landscape designer, and political figure. In doing so, it sheds light on how elite Zen culture was formed through a complex interplay of politics, religious pedagogy and praxis, poetry, landscape design, and the concerns of institution building. The appendix contains the first complete English translation of Musō’s personal waka anthology, Shōgaku Kokushishū .

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Prologue -- List of Figures -- Introduction -- A Master Defined: Musō Soseki in Muchū mondōshū -- Beneath the Ice: Musō Soseki and the Waka Tradition -- Blossoms before Moss: Medieval Views of Musō Soseki’s Saihōji -- Changing Agendas at Musō Soseki’s Tenryūji -- Epilogue -- Appendix: Shōgaku Kokushishū -- Back Matter -- Bibliography -- Index.