Research Series episode 1 - Killing Mosquitoes: Kobayashi Issa’s Buddhist Literary Practice
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Bright on Buddhism Research Series episode 1 - Killing Mosquitoes: Kobayashi Issa’s Buddhist Literary Practice

Hello and welcome to a new type of episode of Bright on Buddhism. In this series, I will be presenting and discussing some of my own original research, which covers a broad range of topics in Japanese Buddhism, and discussing it in the context of East Asian Buddhism and other disciplines broadly.

Resources: 長野郷土史研究会 小林一郎編. “一 茶 発 句 全 集.” JANIS ホームページ. 長野郷土史研究会 小林一郎編, August 14, 2005. http://www.janis.or.jp/users/kyodoshi/issaku.htm. Abé, Ryūichi. “Word” in Critical Terms for the Study of Buddhism, (Chicago: Chicago University of Press, 2005), pp.291-310. Blyth, Reginald H. “Buddhism and Haiku.” Monumenta Nipponica 7, no. 1/2 (1951): 311. https://doi.org/10.2307/2382960. Flores, Ralph. “Fictions of Reading,” in Buddhist scriptures as Literature: Sacred Rhetoric and the Use of Theory (Albany, SUNY Press, 2008), pp. 1-16. Harr, Lorraine  Ellis. “Haiku Poetry.”  The Journal of Aesthetic Education 9, no. 3 (July 1975): 112–19. https://doi.org/https://www.jstor.org/stable/3331909. Hass, Robert, ed. Essential Haiku: Versions of Bashō, Buson and Issa. Translated by Robert Hass. Northumberland, UK: Bloodaxe Books Ltd, 2013. Hudson, Robert. "Compassion: Kobayashi Issa." In The Poet and the Fly: Art, Nature, God, Mortality, and Other Elusive Mysteries, 65-86. 1517 Media, 2020. Accessed March 28, 2021. doi:10.2307/j.ctvzcz2qp.7. Huey, Robert N. "Journal of My Father's Last Days. Issa's Chichi No Shūen Nikki." Monumenta Nipponica 39, no. 1 (1984): 25-54. Accessed April 13, 2021. doi:10.2307/2384479. LaFleur, William R. The Karma of Words: Buddhism and the Literary Arts in Medieval Japan. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2011. Lanoue, David G. "The Haiku Mind: Issa and Pure Land Buddhism." The Eastern Buddhist, NEW SERIES, 39, no. 2 (2008): 159-76. Accessed March 28, 2021. http://www.jstor.org/stable/44362411. Lanoue, David G. Haiku of Kobayashi Issa, 2021. http://haikuguy.com/issa/index.html. Marshall, Ian, and Megan Simpson. “Deconstructing Haiku: A Dialogue.” College Literature 33, no. 3 (2006): 117–34. https://doi.org/https://www.jstor.org/stable/25115369. Ramirez-Christensen, Esperanza U. “Poetics of Renga.” Essay. In Emptiness and Temporality: Buddhism and Medieval Japanese Poetics. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2008. Russell, Bruce David. “Reaching Haiku's Pedagogical Nature.” Counterpoints  Vol. 193, Curriculum Intertext: Place / Language / Pedagogy (2003), pp. 93-102 193 (2003): 93–102. https://doi.org/https://www.jstor.org/stable/42978057. Stalker, Nancy K. "Edo Popular Culture: The Floating World and Beyond: (Late 17th to Mid-19th Centuries)." In Japan: History and Culture from Classical to Cool, 174-208. Oakland, California: University of California Press, 2018. Accessed April 28, 2021. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctv2n7fgm.10. Bright on Buddhism Episode 18 - https://anchor.fm/brightonbuddhism/episodes/What-is-the-Buddhist-philosophy-of-speech--language--and-words-e1dgqu9)__ __Bright on Buddhism Episode 33 - https://anchor.fm/brightonbuddhism/episodes/What-is-emptiness-e1jc31i)

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