TY - BOOK ID - 19118212 TI - Traversing the frontier : the Man'yōshū account of a Japanese mission to Silla in 736-737 PY - 2012 SN - 9780674053304 9781684175031 PB - Cambridge Harvard University Asia Center DB - UniCat KW - Travel in literature. KW - Japanese poetry KW - History and criticism. KW - Man'yōshū KW - Silla (Kingdom) KW - Travel in literature KW - Voyages and travels in literature KW - History and criticism KW - Man'yōshū KW - Man'yôsyû KW - Man̄yefushifu KW - Manʺësi︠u︡ KW - Mannyōshū KW - Manyŏpchip KW - Wan yeh chi KW - Nishi Honganji-bon Man'yōshū KW - Man.yôshû KW - Tʻongil Silla (Kingdom) KW - Unified Silla (Kingdom) KW - Shiragi (Kingdom) KW - J4812.12 KW - J4810.20 KW - K9551.11 KW - K9540.30 KW - J5715 KW - Japan: International politics and law -- international relations, policy and security -- Asia -- Korea (South) KW - Japan: International politics and law -- international relations, policy and security -- Nara period (645-794) KW - Korea: International politics, law and relations -- Asia -- Japan KW - Korea: International politics, law and relations -- history -- Three kingdoms period (313-935) KW - Japan: Literature -- poetry -- Waka, tanka, chōka -- Man'yōshū KW - Japanese poetry (Collections) KW - Japanese literature KW - Korea: International politics, law and relations -- history -- Three kingdoms period (57 BC-935 AD) KW - T'ongil Silla (Kingdom) UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:19118212 AB - In the sixth month of 736, a Japanese diplomatic mission set out for the kingdom of Silla, on the Korean peninsula. The envoys undertook the mission during a period of strained relations with the country of their destination, met with adverse winds and disease during the voyage, and returned empty-handed. The futile journey proved fruitful in one respect: its literary representation- a collection of 145 Japanese poems and their Sino-Japanese (kanbun) headnotes and footnotes- made its way into the eighth-century poetic anthology Man'yoshu, becoming the longest poetic sequence in the collection and one of the earliest Japanese literary travel narratives. Featuring deft translations and incisive analysis, this study investigates the poetics and thematics of the Silla sequence, uncovering what is known about the actual historical event and the assumptions and concerns that guided its recreation as a literary artifact and then helped shape its reception among contemporary readers. H. Mack Horton provides an opportunity for literary archaeology of some of the most exciting dialectics in early Japanese literary history: between oral practice and the tentative beginnings of the written tradition, between religious ritual and literary art, between native and imported artistic systems, and between communal expression and the development of the individual literary consciousness. -- Book Jacket. ER -