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Renri Hishō
( ''A Secret Treatise of Renga Principles'') is a text on renga poetics. It was written by Nijō Yoshimoto around 1349. It had a great influence on the development of renga.Miner, Earl Roy, ''Japanese linked poetry'', Princeton University Press, 1980, pbk. Development Yoshimoto learned waka from Ton'a and renga from Gusai and Kyūsei. While he authored several treatises on waka, it is for renga that he is best known. By the age of thirty, he was regarded as an authority on the subject. In 1345, Yoshimoto composed . This text served as the draft for ''Renri Hishō'', and over the next four years he slightly revised and edited it until it became ''Renri Hishō''. The differences between the two texts are extremely minimal. The text currently remains in a single manuscript in the collection. It is a mid-Muromachi period copy. Contents The text begins with a kanbun A is a form of Classical Chinese used in Japan from the Nara period to the mid-20th century. Much of Japan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Renga ''Renga'' (, ''linked verse'') is a genre of Japanese collaborative poetry in which alternating stanzas, or ''ku (''句), of 5-7-5 and 7-7 mora (sound units, not to be confused with syllables) per line are linked in succession by multiple poets. Known as ''tsukuba no michi'' ( ''The Way of Tsukuba'') after the famous Tsukuba Mountain in the Kantō region, the form of poetry is said to have originated in a two-verse poetry exchange by Yamato Takeru and later gave birth to the genres '' haikai'' () and haiku ().Kaneko, Kinjirō. ''Rengashū, Haikaishū''. Tōkyō: Shōgakkan, 2001. Print. The genre was elevated to a literary art by Nijō Yoshimoto (, 1320–1388), who compiled the first imperial renga anthology Tsukubashū () in 1356. The most famous renga master was Sōgi (, 1421–1502), and Matsuo Bashō (, 1644–1694) after him became the most famous ''haikai'' master. Renga sequences were typically composed live during gatherings of poets, transcribed oral sessions kno ... [...More Info...] |