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"The Journal of Socho is one of the most individual self-portraits in the literary history of medieval Japan. Its author, Saiokuken Socho (1448-1532) - the preeminent linked-verse (renga) poet of his time - was an eyewitness to Japan's violent transition from the medieval to the early modern age.
Written between 1522 and 1527, during the Age of the Country at War (Sengoku jidai), his journal provides a vivid portrayal of cultural life in the capital and in the provinces, together with descriptions of battles and great warrior families, the dangers of travel through war-torn countryside, and the plight of the poor.".
"The journal records four of Socho's journeys between Kyoto and Suruga Province, where he served as the poet laureate of the Imagawa house, as well as several shorter excursions and periods of rest at various hermitages. The diverse upbringing of its author - a companion of nobles and warlords, a student of the orthodox poetic neoclassicism of the renga master Sogi, and a devotee of the iconoclastic Zen prelate Ikkyu - afforded him rich insights into the cultural life of the period."--BOOK JACKET.
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Diaries, Japanese Poets, Social life and customs, History, Japanese poetry, history and criticismPeople
Sōchō (1448-1532)Times
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [317]-334) and indexes
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