Shinkei
Shinkei | |
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Native name | 心敬 |
Born | 1406 Kii Province (now Wakayama, Wakayama Prefecture), Japan |
Died | April 14, 1475 Ōyama, Sagami Province, Japan | (aged 68–69)
Occupation | poet and priest |
Language | Japanese |
Nationality | Japanese |
Genre | Tanka and renga poetry |
Shinkei (心敬, 1406 – 14 May 1475)[1] was a Japanese Buddhist priest and poet (tanka and renga poetry).
Life and work
[edit]Shinkei was born in Taisha, Kii Province (now Wakayama, Wakayama Prefecture) in 1406. He was a Buddhist priest at an early age and quickly rose to the rank of Daisōzu (大僧都, Senior Director).[2][1]
He regarded poetry as the result of a religious way of life (shugyō).[3] For more than thirty years he remained a student with the poet Shōtetsu. His poems are based on the Japanese aesthetic ideal called yūgen (幽玄).[4][2] He also wrote the poetic treatises Sasamegoto (ささめごと) in 1463 and Oi no kurigoto (老のくりごと) in 1471.[1][3]
Shinkei died on 14 May 1475 in Ōyama, Sagami Province (now part of Kanagawa Prefecture).
Translations in English
[edit]Esperanza Ramirez-Christensen translated and annotated Shinkei's Sasamegoto under the title Murmured Conversations: A Treatise on Poetry and Buddhism by the Poet-Monk Shinkei (Stanford University Press, 2008), which received the Japan–U.S. Friendship Commission Prize for the Translation of Japanese Literature in 2009. Ramirez-Christensen also published a book-length study on Shinkei's life and poetry titled Heart's Flower: The Life and Poetry of Shinkei (Stanford University Press, 1994).[5]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c 沢井耐三. "心敬". 朝日日本歴史人物事典 bei kotobank.jp (in Japanese). Asahi Shimbun Shuppan.朝日日本歴史人物事典Category:Articles containing Japanese-language text bei kotobank.jp&rft.atitle=心敬&rft.au=沢井耐三Category:Articles containing Japanese-language text&rft_id=http://kotobank.jp/word/心敬&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Shinkei" class="Z3988">
- ^ a b Carter, Steven D. (1993). Traditional Japanese Poetry. Stanford University Press. p. 289. ISBN 0-8047-2212-9.
- ^ a b Kleines Lexikon der Japanologie. Zur Kulturgeschichte Japans. Harrassowitz. 1995. p. 423. ISBN 978-3-447-03668-9.
- ^ Odin, Steve (2001). Artistic Detachment in Japan and the West: Psychic Distance in Comparative Aesthetics. University of Hawaiʻi Press. p. 112. ISBN 0-8248-2374-5.
- ^ Ramirez-Christensen, Esperanza (1994). Heart's Flower: The Life and Poetry of Shinkei. Stanford University Press. ISBN 9780804722537.