{"id":1591,"date":"2013-10-02T14:41:38","date_gmt":"2013-10-02T05:41:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/library\/?p=1591"},"modified":"2016-09-16T14:36:11","modified_gmt":"2016-09-16T05:36:11","slug":"library-exhibition-when-one-composes-uta-from-the-manyoshu-to-wasedas-school-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/library\/news-en\/2013\/10\/02\/1591\/","title":{"rendered":"Library Exhibition &#8220;When One Composes Uta: From the Man&#8217;yoshu to Waseda&#8217;s School Song&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"col_middle clearfix\">\n<div class=\"Column_Entry Column_Entry_news_detail clearfix\">\n<div class=\"entry_box clearfix\">\n<div class=\"entry_description\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/library\/assets\/uploads\/2016\/08\/397.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1557 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/library\/assets\/uploads\/2016\/08\/397.jpg\" alt=\"397\" width=\"224\" height=\"314\" \/><\/a>Period \uff1a 2013\/10\/18\uff08Fri\uff09\uff5e2013\/11\/20\uff08Wed\uff09<br \/>\nVenue \uff1a Exhibition Room on the 2nd floor of the Center for Scholarly Information (Building No. 18)<br \/>\nHours: 10:00am &#8211; 6:00pm<br \/>\nClosed: Sundays and October 31, but open on October 20<br \/>\nOrganized by: Waseda University Library<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry_text\">What do you do when you encounter impressive scenery during a walk or a trip? Many people might reach for their cell-phones or digital cameras and take a snapshot of the scene right away. In such moments, people in the past captured their feelings in <i>uta<\/i> just like we capture the scenery in a photograph. <i>Uta<\/i>, which is also in the title of this exhibition, is the generic term for Japanese classical poetry in various styles. People composed <i>uta<\/i> in response to both their ordinary feelings in daily life and sometimes an extraordinary occasion they happened to experience. Their feelings were extremely diverse; <i>uta<\/i> could not be composed without a poet\u2019s sensibility to the phenomena close to all of us.<br \/>\nIn this exhibition, we focus on this sensibility of poets and introduce various of their <i>uta<\/i>. When they felt something about their lovers, friends, alma mater, people who had passed away, and death, they composed diverse <i>uta<\/i> such as <i>waka<\/i> (31 syllables), <i>ky\u014dka<\/i> (literally \u201ccrazy poems\u201d), <i>haiku<\/i> (17 syllables), and free-form modern poems. So far as possible, we display these <i>uta<\/i> in handwritten manuscripts; for even well-known <i>uta<\/i> may give you a different impression when you see what they looked like as the poet breathed life into them.<br \/>\nWe hope you enjoy the feelings that people in the past captured in <i>uta<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"right\">Waseda University Library<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Period \uff1a 2013\/10\/18\uff08Fri\uff09\uff5e2013\/11\/20\uff08Wed\uff09 Venue \uff1a Exhibition Room on the 2nd floor of the Center for Scholarly  [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":2067,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[123,82,134,125,124,127,126],"class_list":["post-1591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en","tag-centrallib-en","tag-events-en","tag-exhibitions-en","tag-rikohlib-en","tag-takatalib-en","tag-tokorozawalib-en","tag-toyamalib-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}