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Buddhist monk and poet
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Birth:
1203
Death:
1272
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Biography
Introduction
Sengaku (仙覚, 1203 – c. 1273) 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.
Selected work
Sengaku's published writings encompass 9 works in 12 publications in 1 language and 53 library holdings.
- Man'ʼyōshū chūshaku (萬葉集註釋) (1269); Man'ʼyōshū chūshaku: Sengaku shō, Ninnaji zō (萬葉集註釋: 仙覺抄, 仁和寺藏) Akihiro Satake, ed. (1981). ISBN 9784653005889; OCLC 23315980
- Man'yōshū (萬葉集) (1709) OCLC 069224675