Abutsu - Further Reading
FURTHER READING
BIOGRAPHY
Brower, Robert H. “Abutsu-Ni.” In Kodansha Encyclopedia of Japan, pp. 5-6. Tokyo and New York: Kodansha, 1983.
Discusses Abutsu's efforts to help her son, Reizei Tamesuke, to gain his inheritance, and the impact this had on the history of Japanese poetry.
CRITICISM
Hulvey, S. Yumiko. “Abutsu-Ni.” In Japanese Women Writers: A Bio-Critical Sourcebook, pp. 3-8. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1994.
Deems Utatane unconventional for focusing on its narrator's “unrestrained passion.”
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