Uncovering Heian Japan: An Archaeology of Sensation and ... (ISBN 0822325187)

Repositioning the Japanese Literature:
A vivid reading of Heian court poetry that removes the interpretive screen later imposed in the name of national identity and modernity to reveal a richly expressive world. Here calligraphy, composition, and community combine in a 'song machine' that links poetics and politics and seeks, quite literally, to calibrate the cosmos. After this book the poetry of 'old Japan' will never be the same.