treasury of classical japanese verseMacMillan, PetertextTranslations.enk2018Revised edition.monographiceng

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xlvi, 248 pages : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm."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.Includes romanized transliteration of the poems.Previously published in 2008 by Columbia University Press, USA.Translations from the Japanese; appendix contains Japanese versions of poems; Roman To 1600 fast 73474 Japanese poetryTo 1600Translations into EnglishWakaTranslations into EnglishPL758.5.O4 A30141395931 (softcover : alk paper)9780141395937 (softcover : alk paper)201828903818100220260407100659.0AUWbook014877