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Mount Kagu, with higher mountains behind (Nara Prefecture)

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Description: The Visual and Spatial Structure of Landscapes
This famous poem from the Man’yōshū is supposed to have been composed by the Emperor Jomei (r. 628–641) on an occasion when he climbed to the top of Mount Kagu to view his domain. One question the poem poses is...
PublisherMIT Press
Related print edition pages: pp.172-181
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00164.016

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