Sengaku

Sengaku
TitleBuddhist monk
Personal
Born1203
Hitachi, Japan
Diedcirca 1273
ReligionBuddhism
SchoolTendai

Sengaku (仙覚, 1203 – c. 1273) was a Japanese Buddhist monk of the Tendai school. He was a scholar, editor and a literary critic.[1]

His major work, Man'yōshū chūshaku, was completed in 1269. This was a treatise on the collected poems in the Man'yōshū anthology.[1] His work was instrumental in a process of rediscovering the original meaning of this seminal work of Japanese poetry.

Selected work

Sengaku's published writings encompass 9 works in 12 publications in 1 language and 53 library holdings.[2]

  • Man'ʼyōshū chūshaku (萬葉集註釋) (1269); Man'ʼyōshū chūshaku: Sengaku shō, Ninnaji zō (萬葉集註釋: 仙覺抄, 仁和寺藏) Akihiro Satake, ed. (1981). ISBN 9784653005889; OCLC 23315980
  • Man'yōshū (萬葉集) (1709) OCLC 069224675

Notes

  1. ^ a b Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric et al. (2005). "Senkaku" in Japan encyclopedia, p. 842., p. 842, at Google Books; n.b., Louis-Frédéric is pseudonym of Louis-Frédéric Nussbaum, see Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Authority File Archived 2012-05-24 at archive.today.
  2. ^ WorldCat Identities: 仙覚 b. 1203

References

  • Nussbaum, Louis Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005). Japan Encyclopedia. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674017535; OCLC 48943301

Further reading

  • Shimura, Shirō. (1999). Sanetomo, Sengaku : Kamakura kadan no kenkyū (実朝・仙覚: 鎌倉歌壇の研究). Tōkyo: Shintensha,
  • v
  • t
  • e
   Topics in Buddhism   
Foundations
The Buddha
BodhisattvasDisciplesKey conceptsCosmologyBranchesPracticesNirvanaMonasticismMajor figuresTextsCountriesHistoryPhilosophyCultureMiscellaneousComparisonLists
  • Category
  • icon Religion portal
Authority control databases Edit this at Wikidata
International
  • FAST
  • ISNI
  • VIAF
  • WorldCat
National
  • United States
  • Japan
Academics
  • CiNii
Other
  • SNAC
Stub icon

This article about a member of the Buddhist clergy is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

  • v
  • t
  • e
Stub icon

This biography of a Japanese religious figure is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

  • v
  • t
  • e