Ton'a
Illustration — Ton'a Ton'a, also read as Tonna; lay name – Nikaidō Sadamune (二階堂貞宗), was a Japanese Buddhist poet who was a student of Nijō Tameyo. Ton'a took a tonsure at Enryaku-ji Temple, but was later associated with the Ji sect (founded by Ippen). He looked up to Saigyō's poetic genius.
Ton'a
栗原信充 (Kurihara Nobumitsu) · "先進繍像玉石雑誌(Senshin-shuzo gyokuseki-zasshi, 日本随筆大成第2期第5巻)" · Public domain
- Born
- 1289
- Died
- 1372
- Nationality
- Japan
- Occupation
- poet · writer
- Languages
- Japanese
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Illustration — Ton'a Ton'a, also read as Tonna; lay name – Nikaidō Sadamune (二階堂貞宗), was a Japanese Buddhist poet who was a student of Nijō Tameyo. Ton'a took a tonsure at Enryaku-ji Temple, but was later associated with the Ji sect (founded by Ippen). He looked up to Saigyō's poetic genius.
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The following are two of his best-known poems:
Ei Sanshu Waka (詠三首和歌/頓阿), 1367
Ei Sanshu Waka (詠三首和歌/頓阿), 1367
In 1367, Ashikaga Yoshiakira hosted a poetry gathering at Nii-Tamatsushima Shrine. The scroll consist of three poems, and the script's casual arrangements indicates influence from Fujiwara no Yukinari. The scroll originally was owned by Fujita Denzaburō until 1934, subsequently sold in Kyoto in 2014 to collectors Mary and Cheney Cowles, who then donated the scroll to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2022 (Accession 2022.432.5). The goddess of Tamatsushima maintains a pathway from the heavens so gods can manifest themselves even if invisible to the eye.
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- 1.Carter, Steven D. Traditional Japanese Poetry : an Anthology. Stanford, CA, USA: Stanford University Press, 1991. p 255.
- 2.The shell shed by the cicada was a conventional symbol for ephemerality. Adapted from Carter, Steven D. Just Living : Poems and Prose of the Japanese Monk Tonna. New York, NY, USA: Columbia University Press, 2003. p 133.
- 3.Tonna. Three Waka Poems. MET Museum. 1368.
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