Sengaku | |
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Title | Buddhist monk |
Personal | |
Born | 1203 |
Died | circa 1273 |
Religion | Buddhism |
School | Tendai |
Sengaku (仙覚, 1203 – c. 1273) was a Japanese Buddhist monk of the Tendai school. He was a scholar, editor and a literary critic.[1]
His major work, Man'yōshū chūshaku, was completed in 1269. This was a treatise on the collected poems in the Man'yōshū anthology.[1] His work was instrumental in a process of rediscovering the original meaning of this seminal work of Japanese poetry.
Sengaku's published writings encompass 9 works in 12 publications in 1 language and 53 library holdings.[2]