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Not Seeing Snow: Musō Soseki and Medieval Japanese Zen
Author(s): Molly Vallor (Author)
- Publisher: Brill
- Publication Date: August 29, 2019
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 278 pages
- ISBN-10: 9004386289
- ISBN-13: 9789004386280
Book Description
Not Seeing Snow: Musō Soseki and Medieval Japanese Zen offers a detailed look at a crucial yet sorely neglected figure in medieval Japan. It clarifies Musō’s far-reaching significance as a Buddhist leader, waka poet, landscape designer, and political figure. In doing so, it sheds light on how elite Zen culture was formed through a complex interplay of politics, religious pedagogy and praxis, poetry, landscape design, and the concerns of institution building. The appendix contains the first complete English translation of Musō’s personal waka anthology, Shōgaku Kokushishū.
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About the Author
Molly Vallor, Ph.D. (2013), Stanford University, is Junior Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law at Meiji Gakuin University.