Allegories of desire
Subtitle: esoteric literary commentaries of medieval Japan
By: Susan Blakeley Klein.
Series: Harvard-Yenching Institute monograph series ;; 55
Publisher: Harvard University Asia Center; Distributed by Harvard University Press; Harvard University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 378
Subjects: Fujiwara, Sadaie, 1162-1241; Waka -- History and criticism; Japanese poetry -- 1185-1600 -- History and criticism; Buddhism and literature
Description: "This book examines the historical problem of allegory and why certain texts lent themselves to allegorical interpretation; the political, economic, and religious developments of the Kamakura period that encouraged the development of this method of interpretation; and the possible motives of the participants in this school of interpretation.

Through analyses of the contents of six commentaries affiliated with or influenced by Tameaki, Susan Blakeley Klein presents examples of this interpretive method and discusses its influence on subsequent texts, both elite and popular."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.