The Pursuit of Harmony: Poetry and Power in Early Heian Japan

by Gustav Heldt

Little attention has been paid to the ties between producing and performing verse and processes of economic, ideological, political, and social change in the Heian. This book addresses such issues by investigating how different members of the court deployed poems in the pursuit of power.

Genres: Poetry, Nonfiction, Japan

456 pages, Hardcover

First published September 1, 2008