Title Utamakura, allusion, and intertextuality in traditional Japanese poetry / Edward Kamens

Published New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, ©1997

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Description 1 online resource (324 pages) : illustrations Contents Maps of Japan -- Prologue: The Buried Tree -- 1. Utamakura, Allusion, and Intertextuality -- 2. Stories of the Tree, Stories of the River -- 3. Fetishes and Curios -- 4. The Saishoshitennoin Poems and Paintings -- Epilogue: Recovering the Buried Tree -- Glossary of Names and Terms in Chinese and Japanese Summary In this book Edward Kamens analyzes a wide selection of poems to show how utamakura came to wield special powers within Japanese poetry. He reveals how poets in generation after generation returned, either in person or in imagination, to these places and to poems about them to encounter again the forms, styles, and techniques of their forbears, and to discover ways to create new poems of their own. Kamens focuses especially on one figure, "the buried tree," which refers to fossilized wood associated in particular with an utamakura site, the Natori River, and is mentioned in poems that first appear in anthologies in the early tenth century. The figure surfaces again at many points in the history of traditional Japanese poetry, as do the buried trees themselves in the shallow waters that otherwise conceal them. After explaining and discussing the literary history of the concept of utamakura, Kamens traces the allusive and intertextual development of the figure of the buried tree and the use of the place-name Natorigawa in waka poetry through the late nineteenth-century. He investigates the relationship between utamakura and the collecting of fetishes and curios associated with utamakura sites by waka connoisseurs. And he analyzes in detail the use of utamakura and their pictorial representations in a political and religious program in an architectural setting the Saishoshitennoin program of 1207 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-309) and index Notes Print version record Subject Waka -- History and criticism Japanese poetry -- History and criticism Allusions in literature. Metaphor in literature. Intertextuality. Names, Geographical, in literature. Literary landmarks -- Japan LITERARY CRITICISM -- Poetry. Allusions in literature Intertextuality Japanese poetry Literary landmarks Metaphor in literature Names, Geographical, in literature Waka Anspielung Geschichte Intertextualität Literatur Utamakura Allusies. Intertekstualiteit. Tanka (poésie japonaise) -- Histoire et critique. Poésie japonaise -- Histoire et critique. Métaphore. Figures de rhétorique. Intertextualité. Noms géographiques -- Dans la littérature. Japan Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780300157840 0300157843

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