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In the old Mo Edition of the ‘Book of Odes’1 there is the poetic phrase: ‘Little and pretty, an owlet!’. Commenting on this, Jōgen2 says: ‘The Bureaucrats of the state of Ei showed in the beginning their small merits, achieved, however, nothing great after all. They are similar to owls.’
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Book of Odes’ or Shih Ching is the oldest anthology of Chinese poetry compiled some time after 600 B.C. The Mo Edition which is the only extant text of the ‘Book of Odes’ is a work of Mo of the Early Han dynasty.
J6gen (Ch. Chêng Hsüan 127–200 A.D.) is a philologist of the Later Han dynasty, who wrote a Commentary on the Mo Edition of ‘Book of Odes’.
The three models of impersonation are: the ‘old’, the ‘female’ and the ‘belligerent’.
Confucian Analects’ V, 9.
Prajnâpâramita Siitra, the most widely read of Sutras of the Prajna-school.
This poem is cited in the Introduction to the Kokin-shu.
This poem appears in the Shinkokin-shu.
Confucian Analects’ III, 3.
The wakais found in the Mizu Kagami (‘Water Mirror) attributed to the celebrated Japanese Zen master Ikkyu (1394–1481).
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Motokiyo, Z. (1981). ‘Observations on the Disciplinary Way of Noh’. In: The Theory of Beauty in the Classical Aesthetics of Japan. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-3481-3_8
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