Sengaku
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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 life | |
| Born | 1203 |
| Died | circa 1273 |
| Religious life | |
| 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
Sengaku'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
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