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One Hundred Poets, One Poem Each : a treasury of classical japanese verse / Paris spleen : little poems in prose /

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Penguin classics3466Publisher: London : Penguin Books, 2018Edition: Revised editionDescription: xlvi, 248 pagesages : illustrations, ma pagess ; 20 cm; xiii, 99 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • cartographic image
  • still image
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0141395931 (softcover : alk. paper)
  • 9780141395937 (softcover : alk. paper)
  • 9780819569097
Uniform titles:
  • Ogura hyakunin isshu. English
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • PL758.5.O4 A3
  • PQ2191. P4
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 Fiction PQ2191.P4 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 030196
Total holds: 0

Includes romanized transliteration of the poems.

Previously published in 2008 by Columbia University Press, USA.

"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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