Fujiwara no Teika Summary

“In this art of poetry, those who speak ill of Teika should be denied the protection of the gods and Buddhas and condemned to the punishments of hell.” So opens the fifteenth-century poetic ... Read more

In the following excerpted preface to his translation of Japanese lyrical odes, Dickens describes the nature of these short poems first compiled by Fujiwara no Teika. The Odes [of the Hyak Nin Is&#... Read more

In the following essay, Brower recounts the manuscript history of Teika's critical treatise Maigetsusho and encapsulates the principles of poetic composition it contains. The single most inf... Read more

In the following essay, Bundy evaluates the poetry of Teika's early collection Shogaku hyakushu, contrasting it with the verse of his father, Fujiwara no Shunzei, and pointing out the significa... Read more

In the following excerpt, Bialock studies Teika's influential concept of honkadori (“allusive variation”) in the context of the development of late classical Japanese poetry. I... Read more