Sengaku

Sengaku (仙覚; 1203 – c. 1273) was a Japanese Buddhist monk of the Tendai school. He was a scholar, editor and a literary critic.^[1]

Sengaku
Title	Buddhist monk
Personal life
Born	1203 Hitachi, Japan
Died	circa 1273
Religious life
Religion	Buddhism
School	Tendai

His major work, Man'yōshū chūshaku, was completed in 1269. This was a treatise on the collected poems in the Man'yōshū anthology.^[1] His work was instrumental in a process of rediscovering the original meaning of this seminal work of Japanese poetry.

Selected work

Sengaku's published writings encompass 9 works in 12 publications in 1 language and 53 library holdings.^[2]

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• Man'ʼyōshū chūshaku (萬葉集註釋) (1269); Man'ʼyōshū chūshaku: Sengaku shō, Ninnaji zō (萬葉集註釋: 仙覺抄, 仁和寺藏) Akihiro Satake, ed. (1981). ISBN 9784653005889; OCLC 23315980
• Man'yōshū (萬葉集) (1709) OCLC 069224675