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Li Jiao’s Songs: Commentary-Based Reading and the Reception of Tang Poetry in Heian Japan
In: East Asian Publishing and SocietyThe poet Li Jiao (ca. 646-715), now largely forgotten, enjoyed unusual success in Heian and Kamakura Japan. In the twentieth century, a lost commentary to Li’s poetry was rediscovered in several different manuscript lineages. This paper argues that the commentary spread to Japan early in the Heian period, and was instrumental in Li Jiao’s popularity there. Analysis of the role of imported commentaries helps to explain the shape of the Chinese canon in Japan, including the tremendous popularity of Bai Juyi. Literacy practices institutionalized in the Daigakuryō (State Academy) led to the success of certain poets over others, directing the local canon as well as local composition in literary Sinitic genres.
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On Li’s collected works, see Owen, ‘Manuscript legacy of the Tang’, 318-19.
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Aoki, Shina bungaku geijutsu kō, p. 360; Kojima, Jōdai Nihon bungaku to Chūgoku bungaku, vol. 2, pp. 1046-1048. Yanase Kiyoshi sees textual evidence in the language of a 750 poem by Ōtomo no Yakamochi 大伴家持 in Man’yōshū, maki 17, no. 3976: see Nitchū koten bungaku ronkō, pp. 436-443.
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Ikeda, Nitchū hikaku bungaku no kiso kenkyū, p. 261. A photo-reproduction of the Saga manuscript can be found in Shoseki meihin sōkan, vol. 33.
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For lists of such quotations, see Momo, Jōdai gakusei no kenkyū, pp. 403-404; Yamada, ‘Ri Kyō shishū hyakunijūei (zoku)’, pp. 3-4.
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For a photographic reproduction, see Hu, Ricang guchao Li Jiao yongwushi zhu, pp. 9-10. A variorum edition of the Songs commentary can be found in Yamazaki and Steininger, ‘Hyakunijūei shichū kōhon.’
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Ikeda, Nitchū hikaku bungaku no kiso kenkyū, pp. 314-315. An even older source, the late-Heian Notes for instruction of children (Yōgaku shinan shō 幼學指南抄), contains six quotations from the Songs commentary (with Zhang Tingfang cited by name), and the text quoted in this source is much closer to the Keiō manuscript than the Yōmei. Yamazaki, Chūsei gakumonshi, p. 25.
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On the latter, see Tōno, Shōsōin monjo to mokkan no kenkyū, p. 141.
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Li Jiao’s Songs: Commentary-Based Reading and the Reception of Tang Poetry in Heian Japan
In: East Asian Publishing and SocietyThe poet Li Jiao (ca. 646-715), now largely forgotten, enjoyed unusual success in Heian and Kamakura Japan. In the twentieth century, a lost commentary to Li’s poetry was rediscovered in several different manuscript lineages. This paper argues that the commentary spread to Japan early in the Heian period, and was instrumental in Li Jiao’s popularity there. Analysis of the role of imported commentaries helps to explain the shape of the Chinese canon in Japan, including the tremendous popularity of Bai Juyi. Literacy practices institutionalized in the Daigakuryō (State Academy) led to the success of certain poets over others, directing the local canon as well as local composition in literary Sinitic genres.
| All Time | Past Year | Past 30 Days | |
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