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  • 45 - From the beginnings of kabuki to the playwrights Nanboku and Mokuami

  • from Part IV - The Edo period (1600–1867)
  • Edited by Haruo Shirane, Columbia University, New York, Tomi Suzuki, Columbia University, New York, David Lurie, Columbia University, New York
  • Book:
    The Cambridge History of Japanese Literature
    Published online:
    05 January 2016
    Print publication:
    17 December 2015, pp 447-456

  • Summary

    Gozan Bungaku encompasses a vast corpus of texts in literary Chinese produced by Zen monks during the Kamakura and Muromachi periods. Gozan or "Five Mountains" designates the top five ranks of the Rinzai Zen monastic system and also stands for the system as a whole, which at its height included hundreds of temples and sub-temples throughout Japan. The poetry produced by Gozan monks is usually considered to have the literary interest. Sesson Yubai may be taken as representative of the early-period of Gozan poetry. The peak of Gozan poetry is represented by Gido Shushin and Zekkai Chushin. Both wrote in regulated verse forms and had their poetry praised by Chinese readers. The famous Zen monk of the medieval era, Ikkyu Sojun was not a Gozan monk. As an adolescent, he chose study with monks of the Daitoku-ji lineage. Daitoku-ji Temple had been demoted from Gozan status by the Ashikaga bakufu for political reasons and it opted out of the system.