{"product_id":"teika-the-stylistic-legacy-of-a-master-calligrapher-exhibition-catalog-1987","title":"Teika: The Stylistic Legacy of A Master Calligrapher exhibition catalog (1987)","description":"\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003eTeika: The Stylistic Legacy of A Master Calligrapher. \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003eTokyo: The Gotoh Museum, 1987.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"page\" title=\"Page 5\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"layoutArea\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"column\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSoftcover.\u003cbr\u003e256 pages. \u003cbr\u003eJapanese Language. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003eVery good. \u003cbr\u003eMinor wear and chipping to covers. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003eCatalog and brochure published to accompany the Gotoh Museum exhibition \u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003eTeika: The Stylistic Legacy of A Master Calligrapher\u003c\/span\u003e on view from February 21st-March 29th, 1987.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003eCopiously illustrated. A scarce and beautiful book on a Japanese master calligrapher. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e \u003cspan\u003eFujiwara no Teika (1162–1241) was born into an illustrious lineage of poets just as Japan’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eancien régime\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e was ceding authority to a new political order dominated by military power. Overcoming personal and political setbacks, Teika and his allies championed a new style of poetry that managed to innovate conceptually and linguistically within the narrow confines of the waka tradition and the limits of its thirty-one syllable form. Backed by powerful patrons, Teika emerged finally as the supreme arbiter of poetry in his time, serving as co-compiler of the eighth imperial anthology of waka, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eShin Kokinshū\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (ca. 1210) and as solo compiler of the ninth.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Fenrick Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48370754945249,"sku":null,"price":250.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0532\/3787\/4867\/files\/IMG_5854.jpg?v=1778898683","url":"https:\/\/fenrickbooks.com\/products\/teika-the-stylistic-legacy-of-a-master-calligrapher-exhibition-catalog-1987","provider":"Fenrick Books LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}