The Change of the Meaning of Buddhist Titles in Roppyakuban-uta-awase(<Special Issue>The Medieval Bridge between the Past and the Future)
2010 Volume 59 Issue 7 Pages 23-34
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2010 Volume 59 Issue 7 Pages 23-34
There are some songs with Buddhist titles in Roppyakuban-uta-awase, a collection of waka poems that was first planned in 1192 but took several years to be completed. The traditional meaning of Buddhist titles underwent a radical change during the Insei Period and the Kamakura Period. This is why the songs of Roppyakuban-uta-awase are quite different from their earlier counterparts of the Heian Period. Such a shift is usually determined by a diachronic interaction between the past, the present, and the future. The aim of this article is thus to locate historical factors that must have caused the semantic change of religious titles in early medieval times.
