No Moonlight in My Cup
Sinitic Poetry (Kanshi) from the Japanese Court, Eighth to the Twelfth Centuries
Brill (Publisher)
Published on 1. February 2019
Book
Hardback
502 pages
978-90-04-38719-5 (ISBN)
Description
This work is an anthology of 225 translated and annotated Sinitic poems (kanshi ??) composed in public and private settings by nobles, courtiers, priests, and others during Japan's Nara and Heian periods (710-1185). The authors have supplied detailed biographical notes on the sixty-nine poets represented and an overview of each collection from which the verse of this eminent and enduring genre has been drawn. The introduction provides historical background and discusses kanshi subgenres, themes, textual and rhetorical conventions, styles, and aesthetics, and sheds light on the socio-political milieu of the classical court, where Chinese served as the written language of officialdom and the preeminent medium for literary and scholarly activity among the male elite.
Reviews / Votes
Collecting over two hundred poems composed by dozens of different poets over four and half centuries, this volume provides an unequaled perspective on the breadth of Sinitic poetry in early Japan. The thirteen source-texts employed here represent almost every substantial anthology that survives from the Nara and Heian periods (710-1185)... What the determined reader will nevertheless take away is a perspective of unprecedented breadth on the themes of this literary idiom and the authors for whom it continued to hold so much meaning even as vernacular genres were entering full flower. -Brian R. Steininger, Princeton University, Journal of the American Oriental Society, 141.4 (2021)More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Annotated edition
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 33 mm
Weight
862 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-38719-5 (9789004387195)
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Persons
Judith N. Rabinovitch, Ph.D. (1981, Harvard University), is Karashima Tsukasa Professor Emerita of Japanese Language and Culture at the University of Montana. Her publications include monographs and other works on premodern kanshi (Sinitic verse), early war tales, and courtier diaries.
Timothy R. Bradstock, Ph.D. (1984, Harvard University), is Professor Emeritus of Chinese at the University of Montana. His published works range from studies and translations of premodern kanshi to the investigation of Chinese craft guilds of the Qing dynasty.
Timothy R. Bradstock, Ph.D. (1984, Harvard University), is Professor Emeritus of Chinese at the University of Montana. His published works range from studies and translations of premodern kanshi to the investigation of Chinese craft guilds of the Qing dynasty.
Content
Preface
Notes to the Reader
List of Poems by Title
Title Abbreviations for Kanshi Anthologies
Introduction
?1?An Overview of Sinitic Verse in the Japanese Court
?2?The Rise of Sinitic Verse Composition and the Establishment of the Academy
?3?The Early Anthologies: From Kaifuso through the Age of Emperor Saga
?4?Sinitic Verse Practice: Mid- to Late-Heian
?5?Allusion and Appropriation in Historical Verse and Kudaishi, and Technical Aspects of Social Verse Practice
?6?Natural Motifs in Sinitic Verse: Some Observations
Poem Translations
Kaifuso ??? (Poetic Gems Cherishing the Styles of Old, 751)
Ryoun shinshu ????, (The New Cloud-Soaring Collection, 814)
Bunka shureishu ????? (Anthology of Splendid Literary Flowerings, 818)
Keikokushu ??? (A Collection of Works for Bringing Order to the Realm, 827)
Denshi kashu ???? (The Shimada Poetry Collection, ca. 892)
Kanke bunso ???? (The Sugawara Literary Works, 900) and Kanke koshu ???? (The Second Sugawara Collection, 903)
Kikeshu ??? (The Ki Family Collection, ca. 911-19)
Fusoshu ??? (An Anthology of Poetry from the Land of Fusang, ca. 995-98)
Honcho reiso ???? (Poetic Masterpieces from Our Court, ca. 1010)
Chuyuki burui shihai kanshishu ?????????? (A Collection of Kanshi Written on the Reverse Side of the Classified Edition of the Chuyuki Diary), Twelfth Century
Hosshoji-dono gyoshu ?????? (A Collection of Poems by the Lord of Hosshoji, 1145)
Honcho mudaishi ????? (Poems from Our Court Without Allusive Titles, 1162-64)
Bibliography
Index
Notes to the Reader
List of Poems by Title
Title Abbreviations for Kanshi Anthologies
Introduction
?1?An Overview of Sinitic Verse in the Japanese Court
?2?The Rise of Sinitic Verse Composition and the Establishment of the Academy
?3?The Early Anthologies: From Kaifuso through the Age of Emperor Saga
?4?Sinitic Verse Practice: Mid- to Late-Heian
?5?Allusion and Appropriation in Historical Verse and Kudaishi, and Technical Aspects of Social Verse Practice
?6?Natural Motifs in Sinitic Verse: Some Observations
Poem Translations
Kaifuso ??? (Poetic Gems Cherishing the Styles of Old, 751)
Ryoun shinshu ????, (The New Cloud-Soaring Collection, 814)
Bunka shureishu ????? (Anthology of Splendid Literary Flowerings, 818)
Keikokushu ??? (A Collection of Works for Bringing Order to the Realm, 827)
Denshi kashu ???? (The Shimada Poetry Collection, ca. 892)
Kanke bunso ???? (The Sugawara Literary Works, 900) and Kanke koshu ???? (The Second Sugawara Collection, 903)
Kikeshu ??? (The Ki Family Collection, ca. 911-19)
Fusoshu ??? (An Anthology of Poetry from the Land of Fusang, ca. 995-98)
Honcho reiso ???? (Poetic Masterpieces from Our Court, ca. 1010)
Chuyuki burui shihai kanshishu ?????????? (A Collection of Kanshi Written on the Reverse Side of the Classified Edition of the Chuyuki Diary), Twelfth Century
Hosshoji-dono gyoshu ?????? (A Collection of Poems by the Lord of Hosshoji, 1145)
Honcho mudaishi ????? (Poems from Our Court Without Allusive Titles, 1162-64)
Bibliography
Index