The Wind from Vulture Peak: The Buddhification of Japanese Waka in the Heian Period


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The Wind from Vulture Peak addresses the history of the gradual incorporation of Buddhist concepts into Heian waka poetry and the development among court poets of a belief in the production of that poetry as a Buddhist practice in itself.



Author: Stephen D. Miller
Publisher: Cornell East Asia Series
Published: 06/30/2013
Pages: 480
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.50lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 1.10d
ISBN13: 9781933947662
ISBN10: 1933947667
BISAC Categories:
- History | Asia | Japan
- Literary Criticism | Asian | General
- Religion | Buddhism | History

About the Author

Stephen D. Miller and Patrick Donnelly are co-translators of the 141 Japanese poems in The Wind from Vulture Peak. Their translations have appeared in Bateau, Cha, Circumference, The Cortland Review, The Drunken Boat, eXchanges, Inquiring Mind, Kyoto Journal, Mead, Metamorphoses, and many more.