{"product_id":"murmured-conversations-9780804748636","title":"Murmured Conversations","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMurmured Conversations is the first complete and rigorously annotated translation of Sasamegoto (1463-1464), considered the most 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In addition to her groundbreaking \u003ci\u003eEmptiness and Temporality\u003c\/i\u003e, which itself constitutes a major contribution to the fields of \u003ci\u003ewaka\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003erenga\u003c\/i\u003e studies, she has published a 416 page annotated translation of the poet Shinkei's fifteenth-century \u003ci\u003eSasamegoto\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMurmured Conversations\u003c\/i\u003e (2008)....These two new volumes confirm their author as one the world's leading authorities on Shinkei, \u003ci\u003erenga\u003c\/i\u003e, and medieval Japanese poetics.\" -- \u003ci\u003eJapanese Journal of Religious Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The combination of Shinkei's words and Ramirez-Christensen's commentary reveals in breathtaking detail the intellectual and spiritual landscape of this late medieval thinker. This was a world in which poetry and Buddhism became one. This book is a must for anyone with a deep interest in the history of Japanese poetry and how poetry and Buddhism came to be inextricably blended in medieval Japan.\" —\u003ci\u003eCHOICE\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e@fmct:Contents  @toc4:Acknowledgments\txxx  List of Abbreviations\txxx  @toc2:Introduction\t1  @toc1:Part One  @toc2:1.\tPrologue\t000  2.\tRenga History\t000  3.\tOn the Tsukubash'\t000  4.\tPost-Shinkokinsh' Waka\t000  5.\tAncient and Middle-Period Renga\t000  6.\tThe Character of the Work of the Early Masters\t000  7.\tThe Style of Ineffable Depth (Y'gen)\t000  8.\tLearning and the Study of Renga\t000  9.\tThe Role of Waka in Renga Training\t000  10.\tOn Hokku\t000  11.\tDouble Meaning in Poetry\t000  12.\tThe Manifold Configurations of Poetry\t000  13.\tThe Roots of Poetry in Temporality\t000  14.\tPoetic Process as a Contemplation\t000  15.\tThe Wisdom of Nondiscrimination\t000  16.\tRight Teaching and the Individual Poet\t000  17.\tThe Influence of Companions in the Way\t000  18.\tPoetry and the Mundane Mind\t000  19.\tThe Issue of Fame as Index of Poetic Value\t000  20.\tPoetry Is an Existential Discipline\t000  21.\tPoetry Is a Self-Consuming Passion\t000  22.\tWorldly Glory Versus Reclusive Concentration\t000  23.\tCriticism Is a Function of One's Own Limitations\t000  24.\tSitting with a Master\t000  25.\tConstant Practice Is Decisive\t000  26.\tValorizing the Deviant or Obscure\t000  27.\tThe Difficulty of Comprehending Superior Poetry\t000  28.\tThe \"Vulgar\" Verse\t000  29.\tPlagiarism\t000  30.\tExcessive Straining After Effect\t000  31.\tSemantic Confusion\t000  32.\tIncomprehensibility\t000  33.\tThe Close Link and the Distant Link\t000  34.\tOn Hen-jo-dai-kyoku-ry' as the Structure of the Renga   Link\t000  35.\tOn Rikugi: The Six Types of Poetry\t000  36.\tPoetry Contests and Criticism\t000  37.\tMarks and Grade Points in Renga\t000  38.\tOne's True Poetry Emerges in Old Age\t000  39.\tThe State of Renga in Our Time\t000  @toc1:Part Two  @toc2:40.\tAbout Hen-jo-dai-kyoku-ry'\t000  41.\tThe Central Place of Grace (en) in the Poetic Process  \t000  42.\tVerses on the Moon, Flowers, and Snow\t000  43.\tThe Verse of Ineffable Remoteness (Y'on)\t000  44.\tRenga Rules and Buddhist Precepts: The Question of   Morality and Freedom\t000  45.\tPoetry and Zen Meditation, the Cosmic Body, and the   True Word\t000  46.\tThe Link Between Maeku and Tsukeku\t000  47.\tThe Nature and Goal of Criticism\t000  48.\tSelecting Friends of the Way\t000  49.\tThe Close Link and the Distant Link\t000  50.\tOn the Issue of the Ultimate Style\t000  51.\tDiscipline in the Mind-Ground\t000  52.\tOrthodoxy and Plurality\t000  53.\tReclusion\t000  54.\tThe Impartiality of Divine Response\t000  55.\tHeredity, Social Status, and the Way\t000  56.\tThe Mark of Temporality in Talent, Training, and Fame   or Obscurity\t000  57.\tThe Difficulty of Achieving the Way: The Transmission   of Mind Is Beyond Language\t000  58.\tMutually Supportive and Antagonistic Arts\t000  59.\tThe Practice of Poetry in Our Time\t000  @toc3:The State of Confusion in Modern Renga\t000  The Pedagogic Method Should Suit the Student's Capacity  \t000  The Three Buddha-Bodies, the Three Truths, and Poetic   Levels\t000  @toc2:60.\tThe Question of the True Buddha and the Ultimate   Poem\t000  61.\tThe Ten Virtues\t000  62.\tEpilogue\t000  @toc4:Notes\t000  Appendix: Biographical Notes\t000  Bibliography\t000  Character List\t000  Index of First Lines\t000  Index\t000","brand":"MK - Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50577499029847,"sku":"9780804748636","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780804748636.jpg?v=1746095586","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/murmured-conversations-9780804748636","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}