A. Critical and Comparative Studies

60. Gibson, Morgan. ‘The “True-Word” of Kûkai and Modern Literature in English’. Mikkyo bunka 147 (1984): 102-14.

General comments about Japanese Buddhist themes in twentieth-century English-language poetry, with a focus on post-war American writing. Includes reference to Fenollosa (see D10), Hearn (D9), Pound, Stevens (see CA7), and Yeats. Originally a lecture given at Kôyasan in 1983. Reprinted in Kôbo Daishi to mikkyo no bunka (Kôbo Daishi and esoteric writings), edited by Mitsuhiro Fujita (Kôyasan: Kôyasan UP, 1986).