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A Hundred Verses from Old Japan

By Porter , William N

Book information

Publisher
Tuttle, Tuttle Publishing;Publishers Group UK [distributor]
Year
2007
ISBN
9784805308530, 4805308532
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
10 MB (10046331 bytes)
Series
Tuttle classics of Japanese literature
Edition
Bilingual ed
Pages
viii, 222 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
Japanese poetry;Translations;Japanese poetry -- Tr

Description

A Hundred Verses from Old Japan is an early translation of one of Japan's most famous anthologies of poetry.This gem of Japanese poetry has preserved its charm for almost a century while remaining the most popular of classical poetry anthologies among the Japanese. The Hyaku-nin-isshiu (literally "one hundred poems by one hundred poets") is a collection of a hundred evocative and intensely human specimens of Japanese tanka (poetry written in a five-line thirty-one syllable format in a 5-7-5-7-7 pattern) composed between the seventh and thirteenth centuries and compiled by Sadaiye Fujiwara in 1235. These little poems consist almost entirely of love poems and picture poems intended to bring some well-known scene to mind: nature, the round of the seasons, the impermanence of life, and the vicissitudes of love. There are obvious Buddhist and Shinto influences throughout.To make the sounds more familiar to English readers, the translator has...

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