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One hundred poets, one poem each : a treasury of classical japanese verse

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Penguin classics3466Publisher: London : Penguin Books, 2018Edition: Revised editionDescription: xlvi, 248 pagesages : illustrations, ma pagess ; 20 cmContent type:
  • cartographic image
  • still image
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0141395931 (softcover : alk paper)
  • 9780141395937 (softcover : alk paper)
Uniform titles:
  • Ogura hyakunin isshu
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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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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