Book contents
- The Cambridge History of Japanese Literature
- The Cambridge History of Japanese Literature
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Book part
- A note on Romanization and conventions
- Glossary
- General introduction
- Part I The ancient period (beginnings to 794)
- Part II The Heian period (794–1185)
- Part III The medieval period (1185–1600)
- Part IV The Edo period (1600–1867)
- 38 Introduction to early modern Japanese literature
- 39 Publishing and the book in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
- 40 A forest of books: seventeenth-century Kamigata commercial prose
- 41 The rise of haikai: Matsuo Bashō, Yosa Buson, and Kobayashi Issa
- 42 Ihara Saikaku and Ejima Kiseki: the literature of urban townspeople
- 43 Representing theater: text and performance in kabuki and bunraku
- 44 Puppet theater: from early jōruri to the golden age
- 45 From the beginnings of kabuki to the playwrights Nanboku and Mokuami
- 46 Early to mid-Edo kanshi
- 47 Kanshibun in the late Edo period
- 48 Waka practice and poetics in the Edo period
- 49 Literary thought in Confucian ancient learning and Kokugaku
- 50 Bunjin (literati) and early yomihon: Nankaku, Nankai, Buson, Gennai, Teishō, Ayatari, and Akinari
- 51 Satiric poetry: Kyōshi, Kyōka, and Senryū
- 52 Picture books: from akahon to kibyōshi and gōkan
- 53 The birth of kokkeibon (comic novellas)
- 54 Ninjōbon and romances for women
- 55 Development of the late yomihon: Santō Kyōden and Kyokutei Bakin
- Part V The modern period (1868 to present)
- Bibliography of English secondary sources and translations
- Index
48 - Waka practice and poetics in the Edo period
from Part IV - The Edo period (1600–1867)
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Book contents
- The Cambridge History of Japanese Literature
- The Cambridge History of Japanese Literature
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Book part
- A note on Romanization and conventions
- Glossary
- General introduction
- Part I The ancient period (beginnings to 794)
- Part II The Heian period (794–1185)
- Part III The medieval period (1185–1600)
- Part IV The Edo period (1600–1867)
- 38 Introduction to early modern Japanese literature
- 39 Publishing and the book in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
- 40 A forest of books: seventeenth-century Kamigata commercial prose
- 41 The rise of haikai: Matsuo Bashō, Yosa Buson, and Kobayashi Issa
- 42 Ihara Saikaku and Ejima Kiseki: the literature of urban townspeople
- 43 Representing theater: text and performance in kabuki and bunraku
- 44 Puppet theater: from early jōruri to the golden age
- 45 From the beginnings of kabuki to the playwrights Nanboku and Mokuami
- 46 Early to mid-Edo kanshi
- 47 Kanshibun in the late Edo period
- 48 Waka practice and poetics in the Edo period
- 49 Literary thought in Confucian ancient learning and Kokugaku
- 50 Bunjin (literati) and early yomihon: Nankaku, Nankai, Buson, Gennai, Teishō, Ayatari, and Akinari
- 51 Satiric poetry: Kyōshi, Kyōka, and Senryū
- 52 Picture books: from akahon to kibyōshi and gōkan
- 53 The birth of kokkeibon (comic novellas)
- 54 Ninjōbon and romances for women
- 55 Development of the late yomihon: Santō Kyōden and Kyokutei Bakin
- Part V The modern period (1868 to present)
- Bibliography of English secondary sources and translations
- Index
Summary
The final two decades of the seventeenth century saw in the intellectual life of Japan two developments that would prove to have influence on waka poetry, first on its poetics but later also on its practice. These were Kokugaku and Kogaku. Waka had traditionally eschewed all diction of foreign derivation, and its poetics came to occupy pride of place in Kokugaku writing. Both Kamo no Mabuchi and his nominal disciple Motoori Norinaga were poets of some repute but today they are remembered for their theories. Waka poetry was practiced by many literati, polymaths accomplished in several arts who tended to look askance at popular culture and who remained aloof from coteries and schools. The final generation of Edo period waka poets may be represented by two whose works are still often cited and admired: O kuma Kotomichi and Tachibana Akemi, both of whose merchant-class origins bespeak the extent of liberation of the art from its aristocratic monopoly two centuries earlier.
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- The Cambridge History of Japanese Literature , pp. 471 - 478Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2015