The Wind from Vulture Peak: The Buddhification of Japanese Waka in the Heian Period

by Stephen D. Miller

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1933947861
• ISBN13: 9781933947860
• Release Date: June 2013
• Publisher: Cornell University - Cornell East Asia Series
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.9" x 8.7"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher