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1 John O'Donohue, Stone the 8 Nishiyama Matsunosuke, Edo 16 Introduction to Landscape 25 Haikai is the name for a sev-
Tabernacle of Memory (Galway, Culture: Daily Life and Diversions and Power, ed. W. J. T. Mitchell enteen-syllable form of verse
1994), 2. in Urban Japan, 1600 -1868 (Chicago, 1994), 2. popularly known today
(Honolulu, 1997), 85. as haiku. In the Edo period a
2 H. E. Plutschow, Chaos and 17 For a study of the mechanics single verse was called a
Cosmos: Ritual in Early and 9 Nobuyuki Yuasa, Bashô: The of the diffusion of court cul- hokku, while the genre itself
Medieval Japanese Literature Narroiu Road to the Deep North ture, see Carolyn Wheelwright, was known as haikai. Basho's
(Leiden, 1990), 114. and Other Travel Sketches éd., Word in Flower: The Visuali- diary prose is not only heavily
(Middlesex, 1979), 161 n. 33. zation of Classical Literature sprinkled with haikai, it
3 The source text for this notion in Seventeenth-Century Japan mimics the witty bite of the
is Shôzon engi. See Allan Gra- ID Eric Hirsch, introduction, (New Haven, 1989). verse form.
pard, "Flying Mountains and "Landscape: Between Place
Walkers of Emptiness: Toward and Space," in The Anthropology 18 See Helen Mitsu Nagata, 26 Matsuo Bashô, A Haiku
a Definition of Sacred Space of Landscape: Perspectives on "Images of the Tales o/Ise," Journey: Basho's Narrow Road to
in Japanese Religions," History Place and Space, ed. Eric Hirsch in Wheelwright 1989, 54-83. a Far Province, trans. Dorothy
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of Religion 27, no. 3 (1982), and Michael O'Hanlon Britton (Tokyo, 1984), 29.
195-221. (Oxford, 1995), 23. 19 See Melinda Takeuchi, Taiga's Among the number of trans-
True Views: The Language of lations of Basho's text, this is
4 For the importance of Kumano 11 Only Holland and England, Landscape Painting in Eighteenth- the loosest but the most
as a cult center, see David it is claimed, had a higher Century Japan (Stanford, 1992), poetic.
Moerman, "The Ideology proportion of urbanization. 102-112; Kamens 1997; Joshua
of Landscape and the Theater See Gary Leupp, Servants, S. Mostow, Pictures of the 27 Basho 1984,44. Saigyô's family
of State: Insei Pilgrimage to Shophands, and Laborers in Heart: The Hyakunin Isshu in name was Sato, so perhaps
Kumano (1090 -1220)," Japa- the Cities o/Tokugawa Japan Word and Image (Honolulu, this episode from the Sato
nese Journal of Religious Studies (Princeton, 1992), 12. 1996), 88-93- clan had particular meaning
24, no. 3-4 (fall 1997), 347~374- for Basho. In court poetry
12 James Cahill, Three Alternative 20 Reproduced in Japan, vol. 2 to "wet one's sleeves" was to
5 For the relationship of Fuji Histories of Chinese Painting of Freer Gallery of Art (Tokyo, shed tears and wipe them
and Maitreya, see Martin Coll- (Lawrence, Kans., 1988), 55. 1972), no. 104. away.
cutt, "Mt. Fuji as the Realm of
Miroku: The Transformation 13 See Henry D. Smith II, "Tokyo 21 Plutschow 1990, 88-89. 28 Basho 1984, 56-57. For
of Maitreya in the Cult of Mt. as an Idea: An Exploration of accounts of the northern
Fuji in Early Modern Japan," Japanese Urban Thought until 22 Gustav Heldt, "Saigyô's Fujiwara and their culture,
in Maitreya, the Future Buddha, 1945."Journal o/Japanese Studies Traveling Tale: A Translation see Mimi Hall Yiengpruk-
ed. Alan Sponberg and Helen 4, no. i (winter 1978), 45-80, of Saigyó Monogatari," Monu- sawan, Hiraizumi: Buddhist
Hardacre (Cambridge, 1988), for the contrasting ideologies mento Nipponica 52, no. 4 Art and Regional Politics
248-269. Two treatments of and conceptions of the city (winter 1997), 472. in Twelfth-Century Japan,
the problem of the blood-pool prevalent during the Edo East Asian Monographs
hells are Caroline R. Flaxman, period (and later). 23 Gary Ebersole, Ritual Poetry (Cambridge, Mass., 1998).
"Metamorphoses and the Cult and the Politics of Death in Early
of Tateyama," unpublished 14 Quoted in Constantine Nomi- Japan (Princeton, 1989), 20.
paper; and Takemi Momoko, kos Vaporis, Breaking Barriers:
"'Menstruation Sutra' Belief Travel and the State in Early 24 See Vaporis 1994; Lawrence
in Japan," Japanese Journal of Modern Japan (Cambridge, Bresler, "The Origins of Pop-
Religious Studies 10, no. 2-3 Mass., 1994), 224. ular Travel and Travel Liter-
(1983), 229-246. ature in Japan" (Ph.D. disser-
15 See Henry D. Smith II, Hiro- tation, Columbia University,
6 Hokusai's involvement with shige: One Hundred Famous 1975); William H. Coaldrake,
Mount Fuji is treated in Henry Views of Edo (New York, 1986). "Unno: Edo Period Post Town
D. Smith II, Hokusai: One Extensive reproductions of of the Central Japan Alps,"
Hundred Views o/Mt. Fuji (New Edo city guidebooks may be Asian Art 5, no. 2 (spring 1992),
York, 1988). found in Asakura Haruhiko, 9-30; Asakura Haruhiko, éd.,
éd., Edo no kan II, vol. 4 Nihon meisho/üzoku zue, 18
7 Edward Kamens, Utamakura, of Nihon meisho/uzoku zue vols., 2 suppl. vols. (Tokyo,
Allusion, and Intertextuality (Tokyo, 1980). 1979-1988).
in Traditional Japanese Poetry
(New Haven, 1997), 142.