1278 in poetry
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Events
- 24 August — Amanieu de SescarsAmanieu de SescarsAmanieu de Sescars or Amanieu des Escàs was a Catalan, possibly Gascon, troubadour of the late 13th century. Famous for his love songs in his own day, his contemporaries gave him the nickname dieu d'amor...
wrote A vos, que ieu am deszamatz, a salut d'amorSalut d'amorA salut d'amor or pistola was an Occitan lyric poem of the troubadours, written as a letter from one lover to another in the tradition of courtly love...
(love letter)
Works published
- Fujiwara no Tameuji, editor, Shokushūi Wakashū (続拾遺和歌集, "Collection of Gleanings of Japanese Poems Continued"), an imperial anthology of JapaneseJapanese poetryJapanese poets first encountered Chinese poetry during the Tang Dynasty. It took them several hundred years to digest the foreign impact, make it a part of their culture and merge it with their literary tradition in their mother tongue, and begin to develop the diversity of their native poetry. For...
wakaWaka (poetry)Waka or Yamato uta is a genre of classical Japanese verse and one of the major genres of Japanese literature...
; ordered by the Retired Emperor KameyamaEmperor Kameyamawas the 90th emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession. His reign spanned the years from 1259 through 1274.-Genealogy:...
about 12761276 in poetry-Events:*26 August — Matieu de Caersi composed a planh on the death of James I of Aragon and so did Cerverí de Girona...
, consisting of twenty volumes containing 1,461 poems
Births
- Kokan ShirenKokan ShirenKokan Shiren , 1278–1347), Japanese Rinzai Zen patriarch and celebrated poet in Chinese, was the son of an officer of the palace guard and a mother of the aristocratic Minamoto clan. At age eight he was placed in the charge of the Buddhist priest Hōkaku on Mt. Hiei. At age ten he was ordained...
(died 1347), JapanJapanJapan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
ese Rinzai ZenZenZen is a school of Mahāyāna Buddhism founded by the Buddhist monk Bodhidharma. The word Zen is from the Japanese pronunciation of the Chinese word Chán , which in turn is derived from the Sanskrit word dhyāna, which can be approximately translated as "meditation" or "meditative state."Zen...
patriarch and celebrated poet in ChineseChinese languageThe Chinese language is a language or language family consisting of varieties which are mutually intelligible to varying degrees. Originally the indigenous languages spoken by the Han Chinese in China, it forms one of the branches of Sino-Tibetan family of languages...
Deaths
- Peire CardenalPeire CardenalPeire Cardenal was a troubadour known for his satirical sirventes and his dislike of the clergy...
(born 1180), an Occitan troubadourTroubadourA troubadour was a composer and performer of Old Occitan lyric poetry during the High Middle Ages . Since the word "troubadour" is etymologically masculine, a female troubadour is usually called a trobairitz.... - Ulrich von LiechtensteinUlrich von LiechtensteinUlrich von Liechtenstein was a medieval nobleman, knight, politician, and minnesanger. He was born in 1200 in Murau, located in present day Austria. After the usual noble training as a page and a squire to Margrave Heinrich of Istria, he was knighted by Duke Leopold VI of Austria in 1223...
(born 12001200 in poetry-Births:* Jehan Erart born 1200 or 1210 , trouvère* Ulrich von Liechtenstein , German medieval nobleman, knight, politician, and Minnesänger...
), a German MinnesängerMinnesangMinnesang was the tradition of lyric and song writing in Germany which flourished in the 12th century and continued into the 14th century. People who wrote and performed Minnesang are known as Minnesingers . The name derives from the word minne, Middle High German for love which was their main...