Allegories of Desire: Esoteric Literary Commentaries of Medieval Japan

Allegories of Desire: Esoteric Literary Commentaries of Medieval Japan Klein Susan Blakeley Wydawca: Harvard University, Asia Center Data wydania: 2003 ISBN: 9780674009561 Liczba stron: 378 Format: 229 x 152 Rodzaj oprawy: Hardback Opis produktu: In medieval Japanese literature, the practices of initiation ceremonies and secret transmissions found in esoteric Buddhism began to be incorporated into the teaching of waka poetry. The main figure in this development was 13th-century poet Fujiwara Tameaki, whose commentaries transformed secular texts into allegories of Buddhist enlightenment.