Vallor, Molly. <br/><br/>
Not Seeing Snow :  Musō Soseki and Medieval Japanese Zen. 

 - 1st ed. 
 - 1 online resource (278 pages) 
 - Brill's Japanese Studies Library ;  v.64 .
 - Brill's Japanese Studies Library .
<br/><br/>Intro -- Contents -- Prologue -- List of Figures -- Introduction -- 1 The Life of Musō Soseki -- 2 Musō's Early Life: A Turn to Zen -- 3 Practice and Enlightenment -- 4 Recluse and Abbot -- 5 Building a Line Under Emperor Godaigo -- 6 Association with the Ashikaga and the Northern Court -- 7 Death and Legacy -- Chapter 1 -- A Master Defined: Musō Soseki in Muchū mondōshū -- 1 Muchū mondōshū and the Tradition of Kana Hōgo on Zen -- 2 Playing Teacher -- 3 A License to Critique -- 4 Calling Little Jade -- 5 Conclusion -- Chapter 2 -- Beneath the Ice: Musō Soseki and the Waka Tradition -- 1 Shōgaku Kokushishū: An Incomplete Textual History -- 2 Musō and the Way of Waka -- 3 Affirming the Arts: Musō Soseki and Buddhist Discourse on Waka -- 4 Ambivalence and Abstraction: Literal and Figurative Representations of Reclusion in SKS -- 5 New Takes on Old Tropes: Mind Over Lament -- 6 Rarefying the Pine Wind -- 7 Elegantly Unconfused -- 8 Conclusion -- Chapter 3 -- Blossoms Before Moss: Medieval Views of Musō Soseki's Saihōji -- 1 A Long and Sacred History in Saihō shōja engi -- 2 The Temple and the Blossoms -- 3 Blooms After Death in Shōgaku Kokushishū -- 4 Zen in Bloom in Musō's Chronology -- 5 The Musō Renovations: Musō and Medieval Landscape Design -- 6 Saihōji as Musō Memorial -- 7 Harmonizing Pure Land and Zen at Saihōji -- 8 Conclusion -- Chapter 4 -- Changing Agendas at Musō Soseki's Tenryūji -- 1 Tenryūji: From Imperial Residence to Commercial Center -- 2 Taiheiki's Tenryūji: Appearance of an Onryō -- 3 Tenryūji in 1345: Reunification and the Rise of Buddhism -- 4 Multiple Reconciliations -- 5 Securing Imperial Support for Tenryūji -- 6 Enlightening Godaigo and Other Objectives -- 7 Tying Tenryūji to Ashikaga Takauji in 1351 -- 8 Conclusion -- Epilogue -- Appendix: Shōgaku Kokushishū -- Bibliography -- Index. 
<br/><br/> Not Seeing Snow examines the life, thought, poetry, and garden design of influential Zen monk Musō Soseki. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9789004393899 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Musō Soseki,-1275-1351.<br/>Buddhist monks-Japan-Biography.<br/>Rinzai (Sect)-Japan-History.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BQ9399.M877 .V355 2019 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>294.3927092