A Poetics of Courtly Male Friendship in Heian Japan 9780824861285

Table of contents :
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. Poems to Sing and the Hope for Transcendence
Chapter 2. Paradigms of Friendship in the Tale of Ise
Chapter 3. Poetic Sequences in the Kagerō Diary
Chapter 4. The Tale of Genji: “Two Cranes Flying Wing to Wing”
Chapter 5. The Uji Chapters: “Maidens of the Bridge”
Afterword
Notes
Works Cited
Index
About the Author

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