- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
-
One Prologue -
Two Renga History -
Three On the Tsukubashū -
Four Post-Shinkokinshū Waka -
Five Ancient and Middle-Period Renga -
Six The Character of the Work of the Early Masters -
Seven The Style of Ineffable Depth (Yūgen) -
Eight Learning and the Study of Renga -
Nine The Role of Waka in Renga Training -
Ten On Hokku -
Eleven Double Meaning in Poetry -
Twelve The Manifold Configurations of Poetry -
Thirteen The Roots of Poetry in Temporality -
Fourteen Poetic Process as a Contemplation -
Fifteen The Wisdom of Nondiscrimination -
Sixteen Right Teaching and the Individual Poet -
Seventeen The Influence of Companions in the Way -
Eighteen Poetry and the Mundane Mind -
Nineteen The Issue of Fame as Index of Poetic Value -
Twenty Poetry is an Existential Discipline -
Twenty-One Poetry Is a Self-Consuming Passion -
Twenty-Two Worldly Glory Versus Reclusive Concentration -
Twenty-Three Criticism is a Function of One's Own Limitations -
Twenty-Four Sitting with a Master -
Twenty-Five Constant Practice Is Decisive -
Twenty-Six Valorizing the Deviant or Obscure -
Twenty-Seven The Difficulty of Comprehending Superior Poetry -
Twenty-Eight The “Vulgar” Verse -
Twenty-Nine Plagiarism -
Thirty Excessive Straining After Effect -
Thirty-One Semantic Confusion -
Thirty-Two Incomprehensibility -
Thirty-Three The Close Link and the Distant Link -
Thirty-Four On Hen-jo-dai-kyoku-ryū as the Structure of the Renga Link -
Thirty-Five On Rikugi: -
Thirty-Six Poetry Contests and Criticism -
Thirty-Seven Marks and Grade Points in Renga -
Thirty-Eight One's True Poetry Emerges in Old Age -
Thirty-Nine The State of Renga in Our Time - Appendix: Biographical Notes
- Bibliography
- Character List
- Index of First Lines
- Subject Index
Renga History
Renga History
Sasamegoto offers an account of renga history. Man'yōshū 1635 was cited as the oldest example of linked poetry, that is, its archaic form as “short renga” (tanrenga) in the Yakumo mishō (Eightfold Cloud Treatise [1221]) by Retired Emperor Juntoku (1197–1242; r. 1210–1221). This is essentially a waka poem featuring the formal elements of the basic renga verse form as an individual link, as well as its pragmatic aspect as dialogical discourse. Nijō Yoshimoto (1320–1388) traced the origins of renga to the examples of katauta mondō (half-poems) in the ancient chronicles Kojiki (712) and Nihongi (720). Another significant milestone in renga history is the rise of so-called chain renga (kusari renga) with multiple links. Shinkei's reference to the Minase River provides evidence that Shinkokinshū poets such as Fujiwara Teika (1162–1241) and Ietaka (1158–1237) played a major role in the formation of the long form and its aesthetics during the early Kamakura period. However, renga flourished thanks to the so-called jige renga, leading to a “broadening of the Way.”
Keywords: renga, linked poetry, Sasamegoto, waka, Nijō Yoshimoto, chain renga, Shinkei, Kamakura period, jige renga, Japanese poetry
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
-
One Prologue -
Two Renga History -
Three On the Tsukubashū -
Four Post-Shinkokinshū Waka -
Five Ancient and Middle-Period Renga -
Six The Character of the Work of the Early Masters -
Seven The Style of Ineffable Depth (Yūgen) -
Eight Learning and the Study of Renga -
Nine The Role of Waka in Renga Training -
Ten On Hokku -
Eleven Double Meaning in Poetry -
Twelve The Manifold Configurations of Poetry -
Thirteen The Roots of Poetry in Temporality -
Fourteen Poetic Process as a Contemplation -
Fifteen The Wisdom of Nondiscrimination -
Sixteen Right Teaching and the Individual Poet -
Seventeen The Influence of Companions in the Way -
Eighteen Poetry and the Mundane Mind -
Nineteen The Issue of Fame as Index of Poetic Value -
Twenty Poetry is an Existential Discipline -
Twenty-One Poetry Is a Self-Consuming Passion -
Twenty-Two Worldly Glory Versus Reclusive Concentration -
Twenty-Three Criticism is a Function of One's Own Limitations -
Twenty-Four Sitting with a Master -
Twenty-Five Constant Practice Is Decisive -
Twenty-Six Valorizing the Deviant or Obscure -
Twenty-Seven The Difficulty of Comprehending Superior Poetry -
Twenty-Eight The “Vulgar” Verse -
Twenty-Nine Plagiarism -
Thirty Excessive Straining After Effect -
Thirty-One Semantic Confusion -
Thirty-Two Incomprehensibility -
Thirty-Three The Close Link and the Distant Link -
Thirty-Four On Hen-jo-dai-kyoku-ryū as the Structure of the Renga Link -
Thirty-Five On Rikugi: -
Thirty-Six Poetry Contests and Criticism -
Thirty-Seven Marks and Grade Points in Renga -
Thirty-Eight One's True Poetry Emerges in Old Age -
Thirty-Nine The State of Renga in Our Time - Appendix: Biographical Notes
- Bibliography
- Character List
- Index of First Lines
- Subject Index
