was a Japanese Buddhist monk of the

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. His major work, ''Man'yōshū chūshaku,'' was completed in 1269. This was a treatise on the collected poems in the ''

Man'yōshū The is the oldest extant collection of Japanese (poetry in Classical Japanese), compiled sometime after AD 759 during the Nara period. The anthology is one of the most revered of Japan's poetic compilations. The compiler, or the last in ...

'' anthology. His work was instrumental in a process of rediscovering the original meaning of this seminal work of Japanese poetry.

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Sengaku's published writings encompass 9 works in 12 publications in 1 language and 53 library holdings. WorldCat Identities 仙覚 b. 1203
/ref> * (1269); Akihiro Satake, ed. (1981).
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* Nussbaum, Louis Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005). ''Japan Encyclopedia.'' Cambridge:

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