An unfamiliar place : poetry, power, and the travel diary in medieval Japan / Kendra Strand.
2025
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Title
An unfamiliar place : poetry, power, and the travel diary in medieval Japan / Kendra Strand.
Author
ISBN
9780824897628 (hardback)
0824897625
0824897625
Published
Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2025.
Language
English
Description
xviii, 260 pages ; 24 cm
Exhibited
2024-2025 Poets House Showcase.
System Control No.
(OCoLC)1499561167
Summary
"In the mid-fourteenth century, when Japan's imperial succession practices had been strained by decades of civil unrest, three men embarked on journeys that would lead them to reimagine their world: The second Ashikaga shogun Yoshiakira (1330-1367) went to Sumiyoshi to pray for poetic skill; Priest Sōkyū (ca. 1350) wandered for three years of pleasure and ascetic practice; and aristocratic statesman Nijō Yoshimoto (1320-1388) fled his home in Kyoto to solicit military support. Each encountered unfamiliar territory and unprecedented situations; each of their diaries represents landscapes from perspectives of erasure and absence. This manuscript examines how these powerful figures used literal and metaphorical "unfamiliar places" as sites to reassess their inherited worldview, to reconstruct their imagined geography by gathering information about the places they visited, and to explore novel ways of representing those places as landscapes. Considering the volatile moment in history, when physical violence was a perpetual threat if not a continual reality, the question for these writers became one of how to imagine and construct history through the landscape in a way that would shape the poetic canon and influence views on imperial power, even if it necessitated the destruction of long held conventions of classical poetic practice"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note
Introduction. It Was the Scene of an Unfamiliar Place: Reflections on an Inherited Worldview
Between History and Literature: Contextualizing Northern Court Travel Memoirs
The "Travel Mode" in Nanbokuchō Travel Memoirs
My Brush Is No Match for It: Reconciling Buddhism, Poetry, and Experience in Sōkyū's Souvenirs for the Capital
In This Treacherous World: Constructions of Space in Nijō Yoshimoto's Solace of Words at Ojima
A Brocade of Red Leaves: Constructions of Social Identity in Nijō Yoshimoto's Solace of Words at Ojima
To Look Is Superb: Vision and Historiography in Ashikaga Yoshiakira's Pilgrimage to Sumiyoshi
From Famous Places to an Unfamiliar Road: Utamakura and the Travel Mode Through the Lens of Matsuo Bashō's Narrow Road to Oku
Conclusion. The "Travel Mode" Beyond Nanbokuchō Travel Memoirs.
Between History and Literature: Contextualizing Northern Court Travel Memoirs
The "Travel Mode" in Nanbokuchō Travel Memoirs
My Brush Is No Match for It: Reconciling Buddhism, Poetry, and Experience in Sōkyū's Souvenirs for the Capital
In This Treacherous World: Constructions of Space in Nijō Yoshimoto's Solace of Words at Ojima
A Brocade of Red Leaves: Constructions of Social Identity in Nijō Yoshimoto's Solace of Words at Ojima
To Look Is Superb: Vision and Historiography in Ashikaga Yoshiakira's Pilgrimage to Sumiyoshi
From Famous Places to an Unfamiliar Road: Utamakura and the Travel Mode Through the Lens of Matsuo Bashō's Narrow Road to Oku
Conclusion. The "Travel Mode" Beyond Nanbokuchō Travel Memoirs.
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