School Tendai Title Buddhist monk Name Sengaku Sengaku | Died 1273 | |
Sengaku (仙覚, 1203–c. 1273) was a Japanese Buddhist monk of the Tendai school. He was a scholar, editor and a literary critic.
His major work, Man'yōshū chūshaku, was completed in 1269. This was a treatise on the collected poems in the Man'yōshū anthology. His work was instrumental in a process of rediscovering the original meaning of this seminal work of Japanese poetry.
Selected work
Sengaku's published writings encompass 9 works in 12 publications in 1 language and 53 library holdings.
References
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