Sengaku (仙覚, 1203 – c. 1273) was a Japanese Buddhist monk of the Tendai school. He was a scholar, editor and a literary critic.[1]
Sengaku | |
|---|---|
| Title | Buddhist monk |
| Personal | |
| Born | 1203 |
| Died | circa 1273 |
| Religion | Buddhism |
| School | Tendai |
His major work, Man'yōshū chūshaku, was completed in 1269. This was a treatise on the collected poems in the Man'yōshū anthology.[1] His work was instrumental in a process of rediscovering the original meaning of this seminal work of Japanese poetry.
Selected work
editSengaku's published writings encompass 9 works in 12 publications in 1 language and 53 library holdings.[2]
- Man'ʼyōshū chūshaku (萬葉集註釋) (1269); Man'ʼyōshū chūshaku: Sengaku shō, Ninnaji zō (萬葉集註釋: 仙覺抄, 仁和寺藏) Akihiro Satake, ed. (1981). ISBN 9784653005889; OCLC 23315980
- Man'yōshū (萬葉集) (1709) OCLC 069224675
Notes
edit- ^ a b Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric et al. (2005). "Senkaku" in Japan encyclopedia, p. 842., p. 842, at Google Books; n.b., Louis-Frédéric is pseudonym of Louis-Frédéric Nussbaum, see Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Authority File Archived 2012-05-24 at archive.today.
- ^ WorldCat Identities: 仙覚 b. 1203
References
edit- Nussbaum, Louis Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005). Japan Encyclopedia. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674017535; OCLC 48943301
Further reading
edit- Shimura, Shirō. (1999). Sanetomo, Sengaku : Kamakura kadan no kenkyū (実朝・仙覚: 鎌倉歌壇の研究). Tōkyo: Shintensha,
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