Not Seeing Snow: Musō Soseki and Medieval Japanese Zen

by Molly Vallor

Not Seeing Snow: Musō Soseki and Medieval Japanese Zen offers a detailed look at a crucial yet sorely neglected figure in medieval Japan. It clarifies Musō's far-reaching significance as a Buddhist leader, waka poet, landscape designer, and political figure. In doing so, it sheds light on how elite Zen culture was formed through a complex interplay of politics, religious pedagogy and praxis, poetry, landscape design, and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004386289
• ISBN13: 9789004386280
• Release Date: August 2019
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 278 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.3"