@article{carter1984lesson,
  check = {carter:1984:lesson},
  xn-author = {carter, steven d.},
  xn-pub = {Journal of the American Oriental Society},
  source = {jstor},
  ISSN = {0003-0279},
  abstract = {The contest format was used with success as a vehicle of criticism by poets in two major genres of Japanese poetry, the classical uta and the Edo-period hokku. Yet attempts to put that same format to use in linked verse, the primary poetic genre of the late medieval period (1300-1600), ended in failure. This essay will outline the history of the renga-awase, or "linked-verse contest," and also suggest a few reasons for why that history is not more substantial-the chief one deriving from the power of precedent in medieval critical habits.},
  author = {Carter, Steven D.},
  copyright = {Copyright 1984 American Oriental Society},
  journal = {Journal of the American Oriental Society},
  jstor_articletype = {Full Length Article},
  jstor_date = {198410/198412},
  jstor_formatteddate = {Oct. - Dec., 1984},
  month = {oct},
  number = {4},
  pages = {727--737},
  publisher = {American Oriental Society},
  title = {A Lesson in Failure: Linked-Verse Contests in Medieval Japan},
  url = {http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0003-0279%28198410%2F12%29104%3A4%3C727%3AALIFLC%3E2.0.CO%3B2-B},
  volume = {104},
  year = {1984},
}