Stephen D. Miller
The Wind from Vulture Peak: The Buddhification of Japanese Waka in the Heian Period.
East Asia Program, Cornell University, 2013. Cornell East Asia Series, 166. First edition. "Translations with Patrick Donnelly". 9781933947662  xiii/479 pages.
Softcover volume, measuring approximately 5.75" x 8.75",  displays very light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and bright.
"In the Heian period, court "waka" -- the most orthodox of poetic genres -- became the vehicle by which Japanese writers brought their literary and spiritual aspirations together in a new way. The shift they made from the practices of their cultural past, and the new mind-set that was formed as a result of this shift, is the story of this study. "The Wind from Vulture Peak" addresses the history of the gradual incorporation of Buddhist concepts into Japanese "waka" poetry and the development among court poets of a belief in the production of that poetry as Buddhist practice in itself. Through this book's focus on the poetry that was gathered in the "Man'yoshu" and the imperially commissioned anthologies of the Heian period, and on the decisions made by the compilers of those anthologies, we can understand the reception of and gradual sanctioning of Buddhist poetry and ideas by Japanese court society."