Tales Of Ise

Author : Anonim
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2010-07-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780824837662

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The Ise Stories by Anonim Pdf

Ise monogatari is one of classical Japan’s most important texts. It influenced other literary court romances like The Tale of Genji and inspired artists, playwrights, and poets throughout Japanese history and to the present day. In a series of 125 loosely connected episodes, the Ise tells the story of a famous lover, Captain Ariwara no Narihira (825–880), and his romantic encounters with women throughout Japan. Each episode centers on an exchange of love poems designed to demonstrate wit, sensitivity, and "courtliness." Joshua Mostow and Royall Tyler present a fresh, contemporary translation of this classic work, together with a substantial commentary for each episode. The commentary explores how the text has been read in the past and identifies not only the point of each episode, but also the full range of historical interpretations, many of which shaped the use of the Ise in later literary and visual arts. The book includes reproductions from a version of the 1608 Saga-bon printed edition of the Ise, the volume that established Ise iconography for the entire Edo period (1600–1868).

Author : Helen Craig McCullough
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0804706530

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Tales of Ise by Helen Craig McCullough Pdf

A Stanford University Press classic.

Author : Jamie L. Newhard
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Education
ISBN : UCSD:31822038674115

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Knowing the Amorous Man by Jamie L. Newhard Pdf

One of the central literary texts of the Heian period (794-1185), Tales of Ise has inspired extensive commentary. Offering a comprehensive history of the work's reception, Jamie Newhard reveals the ideological and aesthetic issues shaping criticism over the centuries as the audience for classical Japanese literature expanded beyond the aristocracy.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-31
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780141395944

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One Hundred Poets, One Poem Each by Anonim Pdf

A new edition of the most widely known and popular collection of Japanese poetry. The best-loved and most widely read of all Japanese poetry collections, the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu contains 100 short poems on nature, the seasons, travel, and, above all, love. Dating back to the seventh century, these elegant, precisely observed waka poems (the precursor of haiku) express deep emotion through visual images based on a penetrating observation of the natural world. Peter MacMillan's new translation of his prize-winning original conveys even more effectively the beauty and subtlety of this magical collection. Translated with an introduction and commentary by Peter MacMillan.

Author : Laura Moretti (Lecturer in Pre-modern Japanese Studies)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Illustration of books
ISBN : 900433713X

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Recasting the Past by Laura Moretti (Lecturer in Pre-modern Japanese Studies) Pdf

In Recasting the Past: An Early Modern Tales of Ise for Children Laura Moretti offers a critical edition, translation and study of a 1766 Japanese picture-book. The introduction includes an in-depth examination of chapbooks, kusazōshi, The Tales of Ise and children's literature.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780141392585

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The Tales of Ise by Anonim Pdf

One of the three seminal works of Japanese literature, this beautiful collection of poems and tales offers an unparalleled insight into ancient Japan. Along with the Tale of Genji and One Hundred Poets, One Poem Each, The Tales of Ise is considered one of the three most important works of Japanese literature. A poem-tale collection from the early Heian period, it contains many stories of amorous adventures, faithful friendship and travels in exile, framing the exquisite poems at the work's heart. The Tales of Ise has influenced waka, Noh, tales and diaries since the time it was written, and is still the source of endless inspiration in novels, poetry, manga and cartoons. This volume has been translated by Peter MacMillan and includes a preface by the renowned Japanologist Donald Keene. 'MacMillan's Tales of Ise adds to the treasures of Japanese literature that can now be enjoyed in English translation. It is the most poetic translation of this work to date and establishes MacMillan as an outstanding translator of Japanese poetry' - Donald Keene

Author : Kenko,Chomei
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-05
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780141957876

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Essays in Idleness by Kenko,Chomei Pdf

These two works on life's fleeting pleasures are by Buddhist monks from medieval Japan, but each shows a different world-view. In the short memoir Hôjôki, Chômei recounts his decision to withdraw from worldly affairs and live as a hermit in a tiny hut in the mountains, contemplating the impermanence of human existence. Kenko, however, displays a fascination with more earthy matters in his collection of anecdotes, advice and observations. From ribald stories of drunken monks to aching nostalgia for the fading traditions of the Japanese court, Essays in Idleness is a constantly surprising work that ranges across the spectrum of human experience. Meredith McKinney's excellent new translation also includes notes and an introduction exploring the spiritual and historical background of the works. Chômei was born into a family of Shinto priests in around 1155, at at time when the stable world of the court was rapidly breaking up. He became an important though minor poet of his day, and at the age of fifty, withdrew from the world to become a tonsured monk. He died in around 1216. Kenkô was born around 1283 in Kyoto. He probably became a monk in his late twenties, and was also noted as a calligrapher. Today he is remembered for his wise and witty aphorisms, 'Essays in Idleness'. Meredith McKinney, who has also translated Sei Shonagon's The Pillow Book for Penguin Classics, is a translator of both contemporary and classical Japanese literature. She lived in Japan for twenty years and is currently a visitng fellow at the Australian National University in Canberra. '[Essays in Idleness is] a most delightful book, and one that has served as a model of Japanese style and taste since the 17th century. These cameo-like vignettes reflect the importance of the little, fleeting futile things, and each essay is Kenko himself' Asian Student

Author : Susan Downing Videen
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781684172757

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Tales of Heichū by Susan Downing Videen Pdf

In this book Susan traces the vicissitudes of Heichu's literary history. She translates the complete Heian Tales of Heichu, along with the subsequent setdsuwa stories, fabliaux, and modern fiction in which he appears.

Author : Susan Blakely Klein
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2022-03-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781684176236

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Dancing the Dharma by Susan Blakely Klein Pdf

Dancing the Dharma examines the theory and practice of allegory by exploring a select group of medieval Japanese noh plays and treatises. Susan Blakeley Klein demonstrates how medieval esoteric commentaries on the tenth-century poem-tale Ise monogatari (Tales of Ise) and the first imperial waka poetry anthology Kokin wakashū influenced the plots, characters, imagery, and rhetorical structure of seven plays (Maiguruma, Kuzu no hakama, Unrin’in, Oshio, Kakitsubata, Ominameshi, and Haku Rakuten) and two treatises (Zeami’s Rikugi and Zenchiku’s Meishukushū). In so doing, she shows that it was precisely the allegorical mode—vital to medieval Japanese culture as a whole—that enabled the complex layering of character and poetic landscape we typically associate with noh. Klein argues that understanding noh’s allegorical structure and paying attention to the localized historical context for individual plays are key to recovering their original function as political and religious allegories. Now viewed in the context of contemporaneous beliefs and practices of the medieval period, noh plays take on a greater range and depth of meaning and offer new insights to readers today into medieval Japan.

Author : H. Jay Anonymous
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-08
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781462903320

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Tales of Ise by H. Jay Anonymous Pdf

Revered as one of the great literary classics of Japan, The Tales of Ise is an anonymous tenth–century collection of Japanese poems and prose. First published in 1608 as Ise–monogatori, the work is a product of court life in which the romantic assignations, intrigues, and social standards of aristocratic society in ancient Japan are vividly revealed. Each of the 125 episodes in the book consists of a story plus poetry in the uta form (five lines totaling thirty–one syllables) following the life of a nameless hero, who embodies the social ideals of the era, from his "coming of age" to his death. Arihara no Narihira, a ninth–century cavalier poet known for his individualism and elegance, is considered to be the author of a third of the poems, and it has been suggested that The Tales of Ise developed from his journal. The text is accompanied by an introduction by the translator, explanations of the cultural, literary, and historical material relevant to each episode, and several diagrams of the capital city and the Imperial Palace. The book is further enhanced by sixteen black and white woodblock prints by an unknown artist of the Tosa school.

Author : Susan Blakely Klein
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781684170388

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Allegories of Desire by Susan Blakely Klein Pdf

One of the more intriguing developments within medieval Japanese literature is the incorporation into the teaching of waka poetry of the practices of initiation ceremonies and secret transmissions found in esoteric Buddhism. The main figure in this development was the obscure thirteenth-century poet Fujiwara Tameaki, grandson of the famous poet Fujiwara Teika and a priest in a tantric Buddhist sect. Tameaki’s commentaries and teachings transformed secular texts such as the Tales of Ise and poetry anthologies such as the Kokin waka shu into complex allegories of Buddhist enlightenment. These commentaries were transmitted to his students during elaborate initiation ceremonies. In later periods, Tameaki’s specific ideas fell out of vogue, but the habit of interpreting poetry allegorically continued. This book examines the contents of these commentaries as well as the qualities of the texts they addressed that lent themselves to an allegorical interpretation; the political, economic, and religious developments of the Kamakura period that encouraged the development of this method of interpretation; and the possible motives of the participants in this school of interpretation. Through analyses of six esoteric commentaries, Susan Blakeley Klein presents examples of this interpretive method and discusses its influence on subsequent texts, both elite and popular.

Author : Richard H. Okada
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1991-10-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780822381723

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Figures of Resistance by Richard H. Okada Pdf

In this revisionist study of texts from the mid-Heian period in Japan, H. Richard Okada offers new readings of three well-known tales: The Tale of the Bamboo-cutter, The Tale of Ise, and The Tale of Genji. Okada contends that the cultural and gendered significance of these works has been distorted by previous commentaries and translations belonging to the larger patriarchal and colonialist discourse of Western civilization. He goes on to suggest that this universalist discourse, which silences the feminine aspects of these texts and subsumes their writing in misapplied Western canonical literary terms, is sanctioned and maintained by the discipline of Japanese literature. Okada develops a highly original and sophisticated reading strategy that demonstrates how readers might understand texts belonging to a different time and place without being complicit in their assimilation to categories derived from Western literary traditions. The author’s reading stratgey is based on the texts’ own resistance to modes of analysis that employ such Western canonical terms as novel, lyric, and third-person narrative. Emphasis is also given to the distinctive cultural circles, as well as socio-political and genealogical circumstances that surrounded the emergence of the texts. Indispensable readings for specialists in literature, cultural studies, and Japanese literature and history, Figures of Resistance will also appeal to general readers interested in the problems and complexities of studying another culture.

Author : 紫式部
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1136 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2007-06
Category : Japan
ISBN : 4805309210

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源氏物語 by 紫式部 Pdf

Author : Laurel Rasplica Rodd,Mary Catherine Henkenius
Publisher : Cheng & Tsui
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0887272495

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Kokinshū by Laurel Rasplica Rodd,Mary Catherine Henkenius Pdf

This book is the first complete translation of the tenth-century work Kokinshu, one of the most important anthologies of the Japanese classical tradition.

Author : Peter McMillan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Japanese poetry
ISBN : 0231143990

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One Hundred Poets, One Poem Each by Peter McMillan Pdf

Annotation The Ogura Hyakunin Isshu is one of Japan's most quoted and illustrated works, as influential to the development of Japanese literary traditions as The Tale of Genji and The Tales of Ise. The text is an anthology of one hundred waka poems, each written by a different poet from the seventh to the middle of the thirteenth century, which is when Fujiwara no Teika, a renowned poet and scholar, assembled the collection. The book features poems by high-ranking court officials and members of the imperial family, and despite their similarity in composition, they involve a wide range of emotions, imagery, and themes, from frost settling on a bridge of magpie wings to the continuity of the imperial line. Peter McMillan's poetic translation captures the original emotions of these poems. They are accompanied by calligraphic versions in Japanese and line drawings depicting the individual poets, while explanatory notes place the poems in context. An appendix includes both the poems' Japanese and romanized versions, making this edition of the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu both a superior introduction to Japan and its special lyric tradition and an excellent textbook for the study of Japanese language and literature.