《Japanese Court Poetry》

PARTONE The Nature of Japanese Court Poetry1

Ⅰ．THE DISTINCTIVE COMMON ELEMENTS OF JAPANESE COURTPOETRY3

Ⅱ．RECURRING FORMATIVE ELEMENTS IN THE COURT TRADITION20

PARTTWO The Ideals, Practice, and Development of Japanese Court Poetry37

Ⅲ．PRIMITIVE SONG AND POETRY, CA．550-68639

Sources of Early Japanese Song,41

Primitive Songs and Later Contexts,43

The Place of Song in Early Japanese Life,51

Composition and Technique,56

Ⅳ．THE EARLY LITERARY PERIOD, 686-78479

Poetry as a Literary Art and the Chinese Example,82

The Poet and His Audience,94

Poetic Practice,109

Attenuation and Decline,152

Ⅴ．THE EARLY CLASSICAL PERIOD, 784-1100157

The New Poetic,163

Poetic Practice,186

Consolidations, New Developments, and Decline,223

Ⅵ． THE MID-CLASSICAL PERIOD, 1100-1241231

The Formation of a New Esthetic,236

Poetic Practice,272

The Composition of Poetic Sequences,319

Minamoto Sanetomo and Romantic Primitivism,329

Ⅶ． THE LATE CLASSICAL PERIOD, 1241-1350338

Historical Developments and Literary Issues,341

Poetic Practice,365

New Developments in the Composition of Poetic Sequences,403

The Decline of Court Poetry and the Rise of New Forms,413

PARTTHREE The Tradition of Japanese Court Poetry423

Ⅷ． THE TRADITION OF JAPANESE COURT POETRY425

The Courtly Nature of the Tradition,425

Japanese Poetry and the Western Reader: The Problem ofLimitations,434

The Achievements of Japanese Court Poetry,446

APPENDIX:IMPERIAL ANTHOLOGIES AND OTHER COLLECTIONS OF JAPANESE COURT POETRY481

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE489

Japanese Scholarship,489

The Integration of Anthologies and Sequences,491

Principles and Forms of Citation Found in This Book,493

Sources,494

GLOSSARY OF LITERARY TERMS503

FINDING LIST FOR JAPANESE POEMS TRANSLATED IN THE TEXT515

INDEX519