Allegories of Desire : : Esoteric Literary Commentaries of Medieval Japan / / Susan Blakely Klein.

• Superior document: Harvard University Studies in East Asian Law ; 55
• VerfasserIn: Klein, Susan Blakely,
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : Harvard University Asia Center,, 2003.; Leiden; , Boston : : BRILL,, 2003.
• Year of Publication: 2003
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Harvard University Studies in East Asian Law ; 55.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

One of the more intriguing developments within medieval Japanese literature is the incorporation into the teaching of waka poetry of the practices of initiation ceremonies and secret transmissions found in esoteric Buddhism. The main figure in this development was the obscure thirteenth-century poet...