H. Mack Horton is the Catherine and William L. Magistretti Distinguished Professor of Japanese Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. His books include Song in an Age of Discord: The Journal of Sôchô and Poetic Life in Late Medieval Japan (2002); Traversing the Frontier: The Man’yōshū Account of a Japanese Mission to Silla in 736–737 (2012); and The Rhetoric of Death and Discipleship in Premodern Japan: Sōchō’s Death of Sōgi and Kikaku’s Death of Master Bashō (2019).

• List of FiguresConventions and Acknowledgments発句 Introduction史 Part I. History: Modalities of Medieval Japanese Linked Verse1. The Origins of Linked Verse: The Nara and Heian Periods2. The Early Medieval Period: Ushin and Mushin; Dōjō and Jige3. The Early Maturity of the Ushin Renga Style: Nijō Yoshimoto and Kyūzei4. The Apogee of the Ushin Renga Voice5. The Haikai Efflorescence and the Early Modern TransitionTranslation: Private Treatise on Linked-Verse Principles (Renri hishō), by Nijō Yoshimoto注 Part II. Commentary: Historical Reception and the Yajima Shōrin’an “What-Tree” Hundred-Verse Renga SequenceTranslation: The Yajima Shōrin’an “What-Tree” Hundred-Verse Renga Sequence (Yajima Shōrin’an naniki hyakuin), by Sōchō and SōbokuChart 1: The Structure of the Yajima Shōrin’an “What-Tree” Hundred-Verse Renga Sequence場 Part III. Performance: The Linked-Verse SessionTranslations: Rules for Linked-Verse Sessions (Renga kaiseki shiki), by Nitta Shōjun, and Ten Vexations of Linked Verse (Renga no jūmuyaku), attributed to Sōchō挙句 Epilogue: The Modern Revival of Ushin Renga StudiesAppendix 1: Basic Rules of Intermission and Seriation in Orthodox Linked VerseAppendix 2: Linked Verse in Japanese and Chinese (Wakan renku)Appendix 3: A Note on Medieval Waka SchoolsAbbreviationsNotesBibliographyIndex to PoemsGeneral Index

Beautifully written, brilliant, and highly readable, this meticulous account of linked verse as both performance and text from its beginnings centuries ago to the present day will probably become the definitive work on renga for the Anglophone world. The myriad elegant translations of poems and poetic commentary are a special joy.

H. Mack Horton is the Catherine and William L. Magistretti Distinguished Professor of Japanese Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. His books include Song in an Age of Discord: The Journal of Sôchô and Poetic Life in Late Medieval Japan (2002); Traversing the Frontier: The Man’yōshū Account of a Japanese Mission to Silla in 736–737 (2012); and The Rhetoric of Death and Discipleship in Premodern Japan: Sōchō’s Death of Sōgi and Kikaku’s Death of Master Bashō (2019).

• List of FiguresConventions and Acknowledgments発句 Introduction史 Part I. History: Modalities of Medieval Japanese Linked Verse1. The Origins of Linked Verse: The Nara and Heian Periods2. The Early Medieval Period: Ushin and Mushin; Dōjō and Jige3. The Early Maturity of the Ushin Renga Style: Nijō Yoshimoto and Kyūzei4. The Apogee of the Ushin Renga Voice5. The Haikai Efflorescence and the Early Modern TransitionTranslation: Private Treatise on Linked-Verse Principles (Renri hishō), by Nijō Yoshimoto注 Part II. Commentary: Historical Reception and the Yajima Shōrin’an “What-Tree” Hundred-Verse Renga SequenceTranslation: The Yajima Shōrin’an “What-Tree” Hundred-Verse Renga Sequence (Yajima Shōrin’an naniki hyakuin), by Sōchō and SōbokuChart 1: The Structure of the Yajima Shōrin’an “What-Tree” Hundred-Verse Renga Sequence場 Part III. Performance: The Linked-Verse SessionTranslations: Rules for Linked-Verse Sessions (Renga kaiseki shiki), by Nitta Shōjun, and Ten Vexations of Linked Verse (Renga no jūmuyaku), attributed to Sōchō挙句 Epilogue: The Modern Revival of Ushin Renga StudiesAppendix 1: Basic Rules of Intermission and Seriation in Orthodox Linked VerseAppendix 2: Linked Verse in Japanese and Chinese (Wakan renku)Appendix 3: A Note on Medieval Waka SchoolsAbbreviationsNotesBibliographyIndex to PoemsGeneral Index

Beautifully written, brilliant, and highly readable, this meticulous account of linked verse as both performance and text from its beginnings centuries ago to the present day will probably become the definitive work on renga for the Anglophone world. The myriad elegant translations of poems and poetic commentary are a special joy.

H. Mack Horton is the Catherine and William L. Magistretti Distinguished Professor of Japanese Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. His books include Song in an Age of Discord: The Journal of Sôchô and Poetic Life in Late Medieval Japan (2002); Traversing the Frontier: The Man’yōshū Account of a Japanese Mission to Silla in 736–737 (2012); and The Rhetoric of Death and Discipleship in Premodern Japan: Sōchō’s Death of Sōgi and Kikaku’s Death of Master Bashō (2019).

• List of FiguresConventions and Acknowledgments発句 Introduction史 Part I. History: Modalities of Medieval Japanese Linked Verse1. The Origins of Linked Verse: The Nara and Heian Periods2. The Early Medieval Period: Ushin and Mushin; Dōjō and Jige3. The Early Maturity of the Ushin Renga Style: Nijō Yoshimoto and Kyūzei4. The Apogee of the Ushin Renga Voice5. The Haikai Efflorescence and the Early Modern TransitionTranslation: Private Treatise on Linked-Verse Principles (Renri hishō), by Nijō Yoshimoto注 Part II. Commentary: Historical Reception and the Yajima Shōrin’an “What-Tree” Hundred-Verse Renga SequenceTranslation: The Yajima Shōrin’an “What-Tree” Hundred-Verse Renga Sequence (Yajima Shōrin’an naniki hyakuin), by Sōchō and SōbokuChart 1: The Structure of the Yajima Shōrin’an “What-Tree” Hundred-Verse Renga Sequence場 Part III. Performance: The Linked-Verse SessionTranslations: Rules for Linked-Verse Sessions (Renga kaiseki shiki), by Nitta Shōjun, and Ten Vexations of Linked Verse (Renga no jūmuyaku), attributed to Sōchō挙句 Epilogue: The Modern Revival of Ushin Renga StudiesAppendix 1: Basic Rules of Intermission and Seriation in Orthodox Linked VerseAppendix 2: Linked Verse in Japanese and Chinese (Wakan renku)Appendix 3: A Note on Medieval Waka SchoolsAbbreviationsNotesBibliographyIndex to PoemsGeneral Index

Beautifully written, brilliant, and highly readable, this meticulous account of linked verse as both performance and text from its beginnings centuries ago to the present day will probably become the definitive work on renga for the Anglophone world. The myriad elegant translations of poems and poetic commentary are a special joy.