Exploring Nagusamegusa (1418): The Semiotics of Encounter and Exchange for a Poet-Traveller in Muromachi Japan
The paper applies the LibrAsia2012 conference theme of "exchanges and encounters" to a fifteenth-century Japanese travelogue, Nagusamegusa ("Grasses of Consolation", 1418), by the influential poet and Zen priest Shōtetsu (1381–1459). On a number of levels we can find in this work...
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
The International Academic Forum
2012-08-01
|
| Series: | IAFOR Journal of Arts & Humanities |
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | https://iafor.org/journal/iafor-journal-of-arts-and-humanities/volume-1-issue-1/article-2/ |
| Summary: | The paper applies the LibrAsia2012 conference theme of "exchanges and encounters" to a fifteenth-century Japanese travelogue, Nagusamegusa ("Grasses of Consolation", 1418), by the influential poet and Zen priest Shōtetsu (1381–1459). On a number of levels we can find in this work a great richness and diversity of exchanges and encounters; here the paper examines two types of encounters for their encoded significance in historical, social and cultural terms. |
|---|---|
| ISSN: | 2187-0616 2187-0616 |