Senkaku (priest)
Encyclopedia
was a Japanese
Buddhist monk of the Tendai
school. He was a scholar, editor and a literary critic.
His major work, Man'yōshū chūshaku, was completed in 1269. This was a treatise on the collected poems in the Man'yōshū anthology. His work was instrumental in a process of rediscovering the original meaning of this seminal work of Japanese poetry.
(1269); Akihiro Satake, ed. (1981). 10-ISBN 4653005885/13-ISBN 9784653005889; OCLC 23315980 (1709) OCLC 069224675
Japanese people
The are an ethnic group originating in the Japanese archipelago and are the predominant ethnic group of Japan. Worldwide, approximately 130 million people are of Japanese descent; of these, approximately 127 million are residents of Japan. People of Japanese ancestry who live in other countries...
Buddhist monk of the Tendai
Tendai
is a Japanese school of Mahayana Buddhism, a descendant of the Chinese Tiantai or Lotus Sutra school.Chappell frames the relevance of Tendai for a universal Buddhism:- History :...
school. He was a scholar, editor and a literary critic.
His major work, Man'yōshū chūshaku, was completed in 1269. This was a treatise on the collected poems in the Man'yōshū anthology. His work was instrumental in a process of rediscovering the original meaning of this seminal work of Japanese poetry.
Selected work
Sengaku's published writings encompass 9 works in 12 publications in 1 language and 53 library holdings.(1269); Akihiro Satake, ed. (1981). 10-ISBN 4653005885/13-ISBN 9784653005889; OCLC 23315980 (1709) OCLC 069224675
Further reading
- Shimura, Shirō. (1999). . Tōkyo: Shintensha,