One hundred poets, one poem each : a treasury of classical Japanese verse /
The best-loved and most widely read of all Japanese poetry collections, the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu contains 100 short poems on nature, the seasons, travel, and, above all, love. Dating back to the seventh century, these elegant, precisely observed waka poems (the precursor of haiku) express deep emoti...
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Bibliographic Details
| Uniform Title: | Ogura hyakunin isshu. |
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| Other Authors: |
McMillan, Peter, 1959-
(Editor, Translator) |
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| Format: | Book
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| Language: | English |
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| Language Notes: | Translations from the Japanese; appendix contains Japanese versions of poems. |
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| Published: |
[London] :
Penguin Books,
[2018]
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| Edition: | Revised edition. |
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| Series: | Penguin classics.
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