Abstract
Kenreimon’in Ukyō no Daibu is the author of a personal waka collection, Kenreimon’in Ukyō no Daibu shū. The work consists of 361 waka poems and prose descriptions of their context. The affliction of love and the memory of lost love is the definitive theme of the work.
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Kudo, Y. (2024). Daibu / Kenreimon’in Ukyō no Daibu. In: Sauer, M.M., Watt, D., McAvoy, L.H. (eds) The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Medieval Women's Writing in the Global Middle Ages. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-76219-3_55-1
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