Optical allusions : screens, paintings, and poetry in classical Japan (ca. 800-1200) / / by Joseph T. Sorensen.
In Optical Allusions: Screens, Paintings, and Poetry in Classical Japan (ca. 800-1200) , Joseph T. Sorensen illustrates how, on both the theoretical and the practical level, painted screens and other visual art objects helped define some of the essential characteristics of Japanese court poetry. In...
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| Superior document: | Brill's Japanese studies library, 40 |
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| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Brill's Japanese studies library ;
v. 40. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (305 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Introduction: Thinking with Pictures
- 1. Screens and Poems, Contexts and Images
- 2. The Efflorescence of Screen Poetry
- 3. The Dai Is Cast
- 4. Politics and Precedence
- Conclusion: Poetic Conception, Poetic Vision
- Appendix A: Screen Poems Predating Kokinshū (905)
- Appendix B: Translation from Tales of Times Now Past
- Bibliography
- Index.