Kamo no ChÅmei
Kamo no Chomei (Japanese鸭 长 明, real name: Kamo no Nagaakira, Buddhist name: Ren'in (莲 胤) * 1155, † July 26, 1216 ) was a Japanese writer.
Life
The son of a Shinto priest at Shimogamo -jinja turned to after the death of the father of poetry. He took part in a poetry competition in 1175 and published in 1181 under the title Kamo Kamo no Chomei shū or no Nagaakira Shuu (鸭 长 明 集) a collection of over one hundred poems, one of which was included in the Imperial Collection Senzai - Wakashū. He scored in the aftermath of the circle around the poet and priest Shun'e, whose remarks to poetry later included in his book Mumyōshō (无名 抄) found. A work that constitutes the history of poetry in Japan and anecdotes offers particular the poet competitions at the imperial court.
In his thirties, Chomei withdrew from public life. He lived according to Buddhist teachings in a simple hut, but occasionally took part in competitions poet, and his poems have been included in various collections. At about 1200 the Emperor Go - Toba was aware of him. He took him to the compilation of the imperial collection of poems Shinkokin - Wakashū and created for him a job that allowed him a multi-year retreat in the Ohara mountains. There he took the Buddhist name Ren'in. After five years he went to Hina and lived in a hut on the mountain Toyoma until his death in 1216.
As a major work Chōmeis applies Hojoki, in which he describes the decline of the Heian period and his own life as a hermit. This plant is one of the Pillow Book and the Tsurezuregusa to the three masterpieces of Zuihitsu literature. Hosshinshū (発 心 集) is a collection of 102 stories that illustrate the Buddhist teachings. A arisen to 1186 travel diary under the title Iseki (伊 势 记) has been lost.
Works
- Kamo no Nagaakira Shuu (鸭 长 明 集) collection of 106 poems ( waka )
- 1211 Mumyōshō (无名 抄, nameless treatise )
- 1212 Hojoki (方丈 记) German records from my hut, translated by Nicola Liscutin, Insel Verlag, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-458-17527-8