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Man’yōshū (Book 14)

Alexander Vovin, University of Hawai'i at Manoa

Book fourteen of the Man’yōshῡ (‘Anthology of Myriad Leaves’) continues Alexander Vovin’s new English translation of this 20-volume work originally compiled between c.759 and 782 AD. It is the earliest Japanese poetic anthology in existence and thus the most important compendium of Japanese ...

€93.00$120.00

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9781906876036

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Man’yōshū (Book 15)

Alexander Vovin, University of Hawai'i at Manoa

The largest Japanese poetic anthology, thus the most important compendium of Japanese culture of the Asuka and Nara periods, is very much more than a work of literature. The author presents the Man’yoshu preserving as far as possible the flavour, sounds and semantics of the original poems. The ...

€89.00$115.00

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9781906876203

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Man’yōshū (Book 5)

Alexander Vovin, University of Hawai'i

This is the second volume to be published in the 20-volume set. It includes 114 poems (104 tanka, ten choka), traditionally considered to be the zoka genre, although some of them can be classified as benka, since they deal with death and sorrow. It also contains two poems in Chinese.

€73.00$95.00

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9781905246755

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Reading the Tale of Genji

Edited by Richard Stanley-Baker, Murakami Fuminobu, and Jeremy Tambling

Six essays by international scholars addressing the Tale of Genji scrolls and the Tale of Genji texts in the context of new critical theory relating to cultural studies, narrative painting, comparative literature and a global view of medieval romance. It links new critical theory with ...