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...
| Uniform Title: | Ogura hyakunin isshu. |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | Translations from the Japanese; appendix contains Japanese versions of poems. |
| Published: |
[London] :
Penguin Books,
[2018]
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| Edition: | Revised edition. |
| Series: | Penguin classics.
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| Summary: | 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 emotion through visual images based on a penetrating observation of the natural world. |
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| Item Description: | Previously published in 2008 by Columbia University Press, USA. Includes romanized transliteration of the poems. |
| Physical Description: | xlvi, 248 pages : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 0141395931 9780141395937 |