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The Wind from Vulture Peak: The Buddhification of Japanese Waka in the Heian Period (Cornell East Asia Series)
Stephen D. Miller
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Description for The Wind from Vulture Peak: The Buddhification of Japanese Waka in the Heian Period (Cornell East Asia Series)
Hardcover. Num Pages: 492 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; HBJF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
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.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Cornell Univ East Asia Program
Condition
New
Number of Pages
480
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9781933947860
SKU
V9781933947860
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99-1
About Stephen D. Miller
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.
Reviews for The Wind from Vulture Peak: The Buddhification of Japanese Waka in the Heian Period (Cornell East Asia Series)
The breadth and depth of this work and the brilliance of the translations constitute a significant contribution to the field of Japanese literature.
Kyoto Journal
Kyoto Journal