Learning with Waka Poetry: Transmission and Production of Social Knowledge and Cultural Memory in Premodern Japan
This dissertation argues that throughout premodern Japan, classical Japanese poetry (waka) served as a vehicle for the transmission of social knowledge, cultural memory, and specialized information. Waka was originally indispensable to private and public social interactions among aristocrats, but it...
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| Language: | English |
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2015
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.7916/D8GQ6WVV |