The Wind from Vulture Peak: The Buddhification of Japanese Waka in the Heian Period - Hardcover

by Stephen D. Miller (Author)

The Wind from Vulture Peak addresses the history of the gradual incorporation of Buddhist concepts into Heian waka poetry and the development among court poets of a belief in the production of that poetry as a Buddhist practice in itself.

Author Biography

Stephen D. Miller and Patrick Donnelly are co-translators of the 141 Japanese poems in The Wind from Vulture Peak. Their translations have appeared in Bateau, Cha, Circumference, The Cortland Review, The Drunken Boat, eXchanges, Inquiring Mind, Kyoto Journal, Mead, Metamorphoses, and many more.