Ton'a (頓阿, 1289–1372), also read as Tonna; lay name – Nikaidō Sadamune (二階堂貞宗), was a Japanese Buddhist poet who was a student of Nijō Tameyo. Ton'a took...

attributed with the invention of the kana syllabary and composing the Iroha. Ton'a relates a legend (among many circulating in medieval Japan) that Kūkai developed...

nature lies in its impermanence. Within his work, Kenkō quotes the poet Ton’a:“It is only after the silk wrapper has frayed at top and bottom, and the...

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Cultural Appropriation. Leiden, Boston: BRILL. p. 99. ISBN 9789004249431. Tonʼa (2003). Just Living: Poems and Prose by the Japanese Monk Tonna. Translated...

Morotsugu succeeds him with the title of kampaku. Yoshimoto learned waka from Ton'a and renga from Gusai and Kyūsei. He regarded himself primarily as a waka...

with Princess Shikishi; her grandfather was the poet Fujiwara no Shunzei Ton'a 頓阿 also spelled as "Tonna"; lay name: Nikaidō Sadamune 二階堂貞宗 (1289–1372)...

aesthetics of poetry; Shōtetsu states that it was sent to Minamoto no Sanetomo; Ton'a holds rather that it had been sent to the "Kinugasa Great Inner Minister"...