The Pursuit of Harmony: Poetry and Power in Early Heian Japan by Gustav Heldt
The Pursuit of Harmony: Poetry and Power in Early Heian Japan

Gustav Heldt

The Pursuit of Harmony: Poetry and Power in Early Heian Japan

Gustav Heldt

466 pages first pub 2008 (editions)

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The Heian court of the late ninth and early tenth centuries represents one of the most innovative and influential periods in the history of Japanese poetry. It witnessed the creation of entirely new forms of verse in poetry matches, screen poems, ...

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