Sengaku

Sengaku

Sengaku

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Sengaku (仙覚, 1203 – c. 1273) was a Japanese Buddhist monk of the Tendai school. He was a scholar, editor and a literary critic.[1]

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His major work, Man'yōshū chūshaku, was completed in 1269. This was a treatise on the collected poems in the Man'yōshū anthology.[1] His work was instrumental in a process of rediscovering the original meaning of this seminal work of Japanese poetry.

Selected work

Sengaku's published writings encompass 9 works in 12 publications in 1 language and 53 library holdings.[2]

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  • Man'ʼyōshū chūshaku (萬葉集註釋) (1269); Man'ʼyōshū chūshaku: Sengaku shō, Ninnaji zō (萬葉集註釋: 仙覺抄, 仁和寺藏) Akihiro Satake, ed. (1981). ISBN 9784653005889; OCLC 23315980
  • Man'yōshū (萬葉集) (1709) OCLC 069224675

Notes

  1. [1]
    Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric et al. (2005). "Senkaku" in Japan encyclopedia, p. 842., p. 842, at Google Books; n.b., Louis-Frédéric is pseudonym of Louis-Frédéric Nussbaum, see Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Authority File Archived 2012-05-24 at archive.today.
  2. [2]
    WorldCat Identities: 仙覚 b. 1203

References

Further reading

  • Shimura, Shirō. (1999). Sanetomo, Sengaku : Kamakura kadan no kenkyū (実朝・仙覚: 鎌倉歌壇の研究). Tōkyo: Shintensha,
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