This provocative collection of essays is a comprehensive study of the father-daughter dynamic in Japanese female literary experience. Its contributors examine the ways in which women have been placed politically, ideologically, and symbolically as daughters in a culture that venerates the father. They weigh the impact that this daughterly position has had on both the performance and production of women's writing from the classical period to the present.
Conjoining the classical and the modern with a unified theme reveals an important continuum in female authorship-a historical...
This provocative collection of essays is a comprehensive study of the father-daughter dynamic in Japanese female literary experience. Its contribut...
Murmured Conversations is the first complete and rigorously annotated translation of Sasamegoto (1463-1464), considered the most important and representative poetic treatise of the medieval period in Japan because of its thoroughgoing construction of poetry as a way to attain, and signify through language, the mental liberation (satori) that is the goal of Buddhist practice. It is a fascinating document revealing the central place of Buddhist philosophy in medieval Japanese artistic practices. Shinkei (1406-1475), the author of the treatise, is himself a major poet,...
Murmured Conversations is the first complete and rigorously annotated translation of Sasamegoto (1463-1464), considered the most importa...
