 | The Road to Komatsubara: A Classical Reading of the Renga Hyakuin Subjects: Renga -- History and criticism -- Theory etc.; Japanese poetry -- 1185–1600 -- History and criticismTheory etc.; Sōgi 1421–1502 -- Criticism and interpretation; Shōhaku 1443–1527 -- Criticism and interpretation; Carter attempts to reconstruct the "classical" reading of renga (linked verse) using extant rulebooks from the time, approximating in every way possible the manner in which it was read in its own time and place. The result is a rare glimpse into the literary conssciousness of the medieval Japanese that seems paradoxically modern in its insistence on the final indeterminancy of poetic meaning.Includes a full translation of the 1501 rulebook along with an annotated translation of a solo renga sequence composed in 1492 by Shōhaku's teacher and mentor, Sōgi. |
