Exploring Nagusamegusa (1418): The Semiotics of Encounter and Exchange for a Poet-Traveller in Muromachi Japan

The paper applies the LibrAsia2012 conference theme of "exchanges and encounters" to a fifteenth-century Japanese travelogue, Nagusamegusa ("Grasses of Consolation", 1418), by the influential poet and Zen priest Shōtetsu (1381–1459). On a number of levels we can find in this work...

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Main Author: Penelope Shino
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The International Academic Forum 2012-08-01
Series:IAFOR Journal of Arts & Humanities
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Online Access:https://iafor.org/journal/iafor-journal-of-arts-and-humanities/volume-1-issue-1/article-2/