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A unique document that opens a window onto the world of Buddhist religious experience - especially for women - in high classical Japan, the time of Sei Shonagon's Pillow Book and Murasaki Shikibu's Tale of Genji.

A challenging study offering a new perspective on classical Japanese poems and how they interact with and are part of material culture

A central feature of traditional Japanese poetry is the use of "utamakura", a category of poetic words, to cultivate allusion and intertextuality between individual poems. This text analyzes a wide selection of poems to show how "utamakura" came to wield special powers within Japanese poetry.