Sengaku

was a Japanese Buddhist monk of the Tendai school. He was a scholar, editor and a literary critic.

His major work, Man'yōshū chūshaku, was completed in 1269. This was a treatise on the collected poems in the Man'yōshū anthology. His work was instrumental in a process of rediscovering the original meaning of this seminal work of Japanese poetry.

Selected work

Sengaku's published writings encompass 9 works in 12 publications in 1 language and 53 library holdings.

• (1269); Akihiro Satake, ed. (1981). ; OCLC 23315980
• (1709) OCLC 069224675

Notes

References

• Nussbaum, Louis Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005). Japan Encyclopedia. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ; OCLC 48943301

Further reading

• Shimura, Shirō. (1999). . Tōkyo: Shintensha,