The Tale of Matsura Fujiwara Teika's Experiment in Fiction

Fujiwara Teika is known as the premier poet and literary scholar of the early 13th century. It is not so widely known that he also tried his hand at fiction: Mumyōzōshi (Untitled Leaves; ca. 1201) refers to "several works" by Teika and then names Matsura no miya monogatari (The Tale of Mat...

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Language:English
Published: University of Michigan Press 2020
Series:Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies
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