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One Hundred Poets, One Poem Each : A Treasury of Classical Japanese Verse

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Penguin classicsPublisher: London : Penguin Books, 2018Edition: Revised editionDescription: xlvi, 248 pages : illustrations, maps ; 20 cmContent type:
  • text
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Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780141395937 (softcover : alk. paper)
  • 0141395931 (softcover : alk. paper)
Uniform titles:
  • Ogura hyakunin isshu. English
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • PL758.5.O4 A3
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. .."--Publisher description.
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Previously published in 2008 by Columbia University Press, USA.

Includes romanized transliteration of the poems.

"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. .."--Publisher description.

Translations from the Japanese; appendix contains Japanese versions of poems; Roman

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