
Episode 447 - On a Summer Night, The First Thought of Sleep
History of Japan
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The Shifting Winds of Taste
Kinoteser yuki was already something of a poetic legend by the time he died in nine forty five. His literary approach relied on a careful balance of emotion and reason. Poems were intended to make you feel, but also as intellectual exercises. But over the years, the bal of courtly taste began to shift away from well, balance and more towards that feeling. The last of the haon era, the senzashu of 11 85, contained none by him at all.
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