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

Contributor(s):

MacMillan, Peter [translator.]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Penguin classicsPublisher: London : Penguin Books, 2018Edition: Revised editionDescription: xlvi, 248 pages : illustrations, maps ; 20 cmContent type:

text
still image
cartographic image

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:

Translations.

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.

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Books	Asian University for Women Library	Fiction	Japanese Corner	PL758.5.O4 A3 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		033034
Books	Asian University for Women Library	Fiction	Fiction	PL758.5.O4 A3 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		030212

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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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