Utamakura, Allusion, and Intertextuality in Traditional Japanese Poetry

Kamens, Edward

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“…(ed.) (1997) In poetry, the technique of honkadori 本歌取 (allusive variations) (e.g., Nagafuji 1984, 51-65;Kamens 1997) plays a prominent role. The interweaving of the past by way of allusions to earlier poems conducts an intriguing temporal tension with the concomitant idealisations of the present fleeting moment, and its freezing into a picture of beauty against the backdrop of an ever-changing world, expressed by the aesthetic ideals of yūgen 幽玄 (mysterious depth) and yōen 妖艶 (ethereal beauty).…”

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Images from the Past: Intertextuality in Japanese Premodern Literature

Negri

Tommasi

2022

Ca’ Foscari Japanese Studies

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The series Ca' Foscari Japanese Studies, strong in the tradition well-established at the Dipartimento di Studi sull’Asia e sull’Africa Mediterranea, aims to be an international benchmark for the studies on Japan. It collects publications of high scientific rigor aimed at documenting the most original and theoretically advanced developments in this field, ranging from classicism to modernity. Its highly multidisciplinary vocation results in a production structured in four thematic areas: Arts and Literature; History and Society; Religion and Thought; Linguistic and Language Education.

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Images from the Past: Intertextuality in Japanese Premodern Literature

Negri

Tommasi

2022

Ca’ Foscari Japanese Studies

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“…The places Bashō intends to visit are uta-makura 歌枕 or hai-makura 俳枕. (Kamens 1997) Uta-makura -which translates as poem-pillows -are those places in Japan which are loaded with meaning -places which are famous as wonders of nature or for being part of the real or mythological history of Japan (a difference that was not made in Japan in the days of Bashō; Japan's history was recorded in the Kojiki 古事記 'Records of Ancient Matters'/'An Account of Ancient Matters' and Nihon Shoki 日本書紀 / Nihongi 日本紀 'Japanese Chronicles'); hai-makura are those places which have been made famous by poets through repeated citations throughout the history of poetry in Japan. The medieval geography of Japan is shaped more by ancient legends, stories, and poems than by geographic-scientific features -a map of Japan becomes meaningful only through what is related to a specific place (in the same way Pierre Nora has described France as a net of lieux des memoire (Nora 1999(Nora -2010).…”

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Alienation and In-Habitation: The Educating Journey in West and East

Kenklies

2020

East Asian Pedagogies

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The concept of 'the whole world as a school' is deeply rooted in the European tradition. We find it in Nicholas of Cusa as well as in texts of Paracelsus, Alsted, and Comenius. And not much younger is the practice that embodies this concept like no other: the educating or formative journey, or -as it is known in German: die Bildungsreise. Theory and practice of journeying have their fixed places in the history of education -not only in Europe. This paper endeavours to introduce two concepts of the educating journey: the European version which arguably found its most theoretical expression in the German ideas of Bildung and Bildungsreise and is based on an idea of a deliberate alienation, and the Japanese concept of an educating journey as inhabitation as expressed in the itineraries of Matsuo Bashō 松尾芭蕉, the famous haiku poet. However, going beyond a mere presentation, in contrasting both, the concepts do not only become more distinct but they hopefully can also offer a critical perspective on each other. And, maybe even more importantly: they can offer a foundation for relating those two traditions which so often are perceived as being very different. 2 A first approach to the subject brings to mind two dimensions with regard to which we usually talk about formative journeys: We either talk about journeys in a more metaphorical sense, or we do mean literally a journey that takes us and our bodies from one place to another one. Usually those two forms can be distinguished by the first one, the metaphorical one, being a movement of mind and spirit, whereas the second one emphasises a spatial change inasmuch as it is our bodies that move, too, and not only (or not at all) our minds and spirits. However, already our creation of the metaphor, i.e. the addressing of the changing of mind and spirit as a movement, as 'journey', bears witness to our tendency to frame non-material changes as mirroring bodily travel: For good reasons we relate thinking to travelling, for example, when talking about the 'train of thought' -and whereas extensive bodily journeying only started quite late to be of greater relevance (if we take a journey to be different from an escape, a nomadic lifestyle, etc.) human thinking, imagination and fantasy always have travelled extensively through space and time, leaving the body behind. With the help of books, stories and substances, the mind was supposedly freed from its domestic cage to explore the universe of possibility. None of this was mere play: most people were quite aware of the eminent consequences this kind of travelling has or could have, as whoever returns, if at all, does not return unchanged -a change that might be sought for or feared, that might accidentally occur and then is either welcomed or resisted: Those who ban drugs or burn books are very much aware of the changing power of such spiritual travels, as well as those who deliberately use this kind of help to induce a spiritual journey and embrace the change that this results in. Looking at Plato's allegory of the cave (Polite...

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Utamakura, Allusion, and Intertextuality in Traditional Japanese Poetry

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Images from the Past: Intertextuality in Japanese Premodern Literature

Images from the Past: Intertextuality in Japanese Premodern Literature

Alienation and In-Habitation: The Educating Journey in West and East

Appell an den Kriegsgott: Ikonographische Innovationen im Dienst kultureller und politischer Rivalität

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