The canonization of Hitomaro: Paradigm of the poet as God [microform]
- Bib ID:
- 4740299
- Format:
- Book and Microform
- Author:
- Commons, Anne Elisabeth
- Online Version:
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- Description:
- 305 p.
- ISBN:
- 9780549855002
- Summary:
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This dissertation is a study of the reception, canonization, and ultimate deification of the seventh-century Japanese court poet Kakinomoto no Hitomaro. The dissertation examines the process of Hitomaro's canonization over a thousand-year span, from the eighth century to the eighteenth, analyzing his evolving image as a reflection of larger cultural patterns or tropes across that range of time. These images of Hitomaro are analyzed both in terms of his textual canonization and his extra-textual canonization, which took the form of worship ceremonies and enshrinement. The study examines Hitomaro's status as a symbolic embodiment of the Japanese court-poetic tradition, and illuminates the ways in which he was appropriated to fulfill a legitimizing and authorizing role within that tradition by later poetic practitioners. It demonstrates how the fluidity of Hitomaro's image was predicated on his power as a symbol, in some instances with almost no regard to his poetry.
His textual canonization is based not only on the reception of his works, but on his valorization as a figure in later, highly-regarded canonical texts. His worship rituals and other aspects of his extra-textual canonization represent further developments from his treatment in major texts, and the dissertation elucidates the significance of Hitomaro's worship as a watershed in the increasing integration of religious and poetic discourse and praxis in medieval Japan.
- Notes:
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- (UMI)AAI3333312
- Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 69-10, Section: A, page: 3955.
- Adviser: Haruo Shirane.
- Thesis (Ph.D.)--Columbia University, 2003.
- Reproduction:
- Microfiche. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University Microfilms International.
- Subject:
- Literature, Asian
- Other authors/contributors:
- Columbia University
- Copyright:
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- Creation date:
- 2003
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