Waka wars: quarrels in an inner space

Article Abstract:

Lyric interpretations of Japanese waka best bring out the important role of emotion in these poems. Significant discussion of the waka genre of Japanese poetry is found in 'Japanese Court Poetry' by Robert H. Brower and Earl Miner (1961), a 1986 article by Mark Morris and a 1991 article by Judith Rabinovitch in the Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, the English translation of Konishi Jin'ichi's work on the history of Japanese literature, a 1989 anthology by Steven D. Carter entitled 'Waiting for the Wind,' and 'Kyogoku Tamekane: Poetry and Politics in Late Kamakura Japan' (1989) by Robert N. Huey.

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Domyaku Sensei and "The Housemaid's Ballad" (1769)

Article Abstract:

Japanese "mad poetry," or kyoshi, is intended to amuse, not promote virtue. Kyoshi popularity increased after 1800. The comic genre did not disappear after the lapse of the Tokugawa regime and remains an expression of the last phases of Tokugawa rule. The publication of Domayaku Sensei's 'Taihei gafu' provided classics for a new genre.

Japanese literature, Sensei, Domyaku

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