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Not Seeing Snow: Muso Soseki and Medieval Japanese Zen offers a detailed look at a crucial yet sorely neglected figure in medieval Japan. It clarifies Muso '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 Muso 's personal waka anthology, Sho gaku Kokushishu.

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Author:   Molly Vallor
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   64
Weight:   0.573kg
ISBN:  

9789004386280

ISBN 10:   9004386289
Pages:   264
Publication Date:   29 August 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Contents Prologue List of Figures Introduction: Zen in the Generations before Muso: The Growth of the Gozan System in Medieval Japan 1 The Life of Muso Soseki: A Critical Reading 2 Muso's Early Life: A Turn to Zen 3 Practice and Enlightenment 5 Recluse and Abbot 6 Building a Line Under Emperor Godaigo 7 Association with the Ashikaga and the Northern Court 8 Death and Legacy 1 A Master Defined: Muso Soseki in Muchu mondoshu 1 Muchu Mondoshuand the Tradition of Kana Hogoon Zen 2 Playing Teacher 3 A License to Critique 4 Calling Little Jade 5 Conclusion 2 Beneath the Ice: Muso Soseki and the Waka Tradition 1 Shogaku Kokushishu: An Incomplete Textual History 2 Muso and the Way of Waka 3 Affirming the Arts: Muso Soseki and Buddhist Discourse on Waka 4 Ambivalence and Abstraction: Literal and Figurative Representations of Reclusion in SKS 5 New Takes on Old Tropes: Mind Over Lament 6 Rarefying the Pine Wind 7 Elegantly Unconfused 7 Conclusion 3 Blossoms before Moss: Medieval Views of Muso Soseki's Saihoji 1 A Long and Sacred History in Saihoshoja Engi 2 The Temple and the Blossoms 3 Blooms After Death in Shogaku Kokushishu 4 When the Shogun was at Saihoji after the Blossoms had Fallen 5 Zen in Bloom in Muso's Chronology 6 The Muso Renovations: Muso and Medieval Landscape Design 7 Saihoji as Muso Memorial 8 Harmonizing Pure Land and Zen at Saihoji 9 Conclusion 4 Changing Agendas at Muso Soseki's Tenryuji 1 Tenryuji: From Imperial Residence to Commercial Center 2 Taiheiki's Tenryuji: Appearance of an Onryo 3 Tenryuji in 1345: Reunification and the Rise of Buddhism 4 Multiple Reconciliations 5 Securing Imperial Support for Tenryuji 6 Enlightening Godaigo and Other Objectives 7 Tying Tenryuji to Ashikaga Takauji in 8 Conclusion Epilogue Appendix: Shogaku Kokushishu Bibliography

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Molly Vallor, Ph.D. (2013), Stanford University, is Junior Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law at Meiji Gakuin University.

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