Asian Art

Haku Rakuten

Haku Rakuten (白楽天) is a Noh play in the first category by Zeami Motokiyo, about the Japanese god of poetry repelling the Chinese poet Bai Juyi (or Po Chü-i) from Japan 500 years earlier, in defiance of the (perceived) challenge from China to the autonomy of Japanese poetry.

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• ▸Chinese herbology
• ▸Geology of the Australian Capital Territory
• ▸Igbo Jews

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