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Traditional Japanese Poetry: An Anthology

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Description for Traditional Japanese Poetry: An Anthology Paperback. This volume offers a rich selection of Japanese poetry (more than 1,100 poems) in traditional genres dating from the earliest times to the twentieth century. Translator(s): Carter, Steven D. Num Pages: 536 pages, 26 half-tones. BIC Classification: DC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 700.

This anthology brings togethere in convenient form a rich selection of Japanese poetry in traditional genres dating back from the earliest times to the twentieth century. With more than 1,100 poems, it is the most varied and comprehensive selection of traditional Japanese poetry now available in English.

Ezra Pound called poetry "the most concentrated form of verbal expression," and the great poets of Japan wrote poems as charged and compressed as poems can be. The Japanese language, with its few consonates and even fewer vowels, did not lend itself to expansive forms, making small seem better and perhaps more powerful. ... Read more

Add to this the high sense of decorum that dominated court society for centuries, and you have the conditions that led to the development of the classical uta (also referred to as tanka or waka), the thrity-one-syllable form that acts as the foundation for virtually all poetry written in Japanese between 850 and 1900.

In choosing poems, the compiler has given priority to authors and works gnerally acknowledged as of great artistic and/or historical importance by Japanese scholars. For this reason, major poets such as Kakinomoto no Hitomaro, Izumi Shikibu, Saigyo, and Matsuo Basho are particualarly important collections such as Man'yoshu, Kokinshu, and Shin kokinshu. In addtion, the volume also contains samplings from genres such as the poetic diary, linked verse, Chinese forms, and comic verse.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
536
Condition
New
Number of Pages
536
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804722124
SKU
V9780804722124
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99-50

Reviews for Traditional Japanese Poetry: An Anthology
'A collection of excellent translations of Japanese poetry ... The quality of the translations and the neat organization and handsome design of the book make it a pleasure to read.' Chanoyu Quarterly

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