The Making of Shinkokinshū

by Robert N. Huey

This study of the Japanese imperial court in the early thirteenth century focuses on the compilation of one of Japan's most important poetry collections, Shinkokinshu . Using personal diaries, court records, poetry texts, and literary treatises, Robert N. Huey reconstructs the process by which Retired Emperor Go-Toba brought together contending factions to produce this collection and laid the groundwork for his later attempt at imperial restoration...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674008537
• ISBN13: 9780674008533
• Release Date: July 2002
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 512 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.4" x 9.3"