The Pheasant’s Call and the Sound of Sympathy
This article examines how literati poet-painter Yosa Buson (1716-1783) composed an elegy that transforms the conventional trope of the pheasant as a figure for representing grief and grieving and Confucian moral and social values. I argue that Buson forges a new poetic form, representing feelings o...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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University Library System, University of Pittsburgh
2022-03-01
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Series: | Japanese Language and Literature |
Online Access: | http://jll.pitt.edu/ojs/JLL/article/view/223 |