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Song in an Age of Discord is a companion volume to the author s translation of The Journal of Socho, the travel diary and poetic memoir of Saiokuken Socho (1448-1532), the preeminent linked-verse (renga) poet of his generation. The Journal which records several journeysthat Socho made between Kyoto and Suruga Province during the tumultuous Age of the Country at War is unparalleled in the literature of the period for its range of commentary and freshness of detail, and for its impressive array of literary genres, including more than 600 poems. The present volume opens with an overview of the author s life and times, and explores the relationships between politics, patronage, and the creative process in late medieval Japan. Raised in the service of a feudal lord in Suruga Province, Socho subsequently became the devoted student of the renga master Sogi and the iconoclastic Zen monk Ikkyu, a variety of influences clearly visible in his journal. Socho lived in an era in which established values and hierarchies were being questioned, and his journal reflects his own testing of traditional literary boundaries.

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• Full title: Song in an Age of Discord
• Subtitle: The Journal of Socho and Poetic Life in Late Medieval Japan
• Author: H.Mack Horton
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 448
• EAN: 9780804732840
• ISBN: 0804732841
• ID: 04716798
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Weight: 885 g
• Dimensions: 232 × 178 × 32 mm
• Date of publishing: 13. May 2002

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