Inhalt: | Introduction: Zen in the generations before Musō: the growth of the Gozan system in medieval Japan -- A master defined: Musō Soseki in Muchū mondōshū -- Beneath the ice: Musō Soseki and the waka tradition -- Blossoms before moss: medieval views of Musō Soseki's Saihōji -- Changing agendas at Musō Soseki's Tenryūji. "Not Seeing Snow: New Views of Zen Master Muso Soseki (1275-1351) offers a critical reappraisal of a crucial yet sorely neglected figure in medieval Japan. It clarifies Muso's far-reaching significance as a Buddhist leader, waka poet, landscape designer, and political figure. In doing so, it sheds light on how elite Zen culture was formed through a complex interplay of politics, religious pedagogy and praxis, poetry, landscape design, and the concerns of institution building. The appendix contains the first complete English translation of Muso's personal waka anthology, Shogaku Kokushishu"-- |
