The kokinshū : selected poems /

"The Kokinshu is a thematically divided tenth-century collection of 1,111 Japanese waka poems that was imperially commissioned. For over a thousand years, it was the major source for the associations, motifs, and styles of the Japanese vernacular poetic tradition. Poetic and prose texts as dive...

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Bibliografiske detaljer
Andre forfattere: Duthie, Torquil (Translator)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Sprog:engelsk
japansk
Udgivet: New York : Columbia University Press, [2023]
Serier:Translations from the Asian classics.
Online adgang:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7312/duth20762
Indholdsfortegnelse:
  • Intro
  • Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part I. Translation
  • 1. Mana Preface
  • 2. Selected Poems from the Kokinwakashū
  • 3. Kana Preface
  • Part II. Essays
  • 1. Poetry Before the Heian Period
  • 2. The Heian Court and Kana Writing
  • 3. The Conception and Structure of the Kokinshū
  • 4. Topics of Composition
  • 5. Prosody and Rhetorical Conventions
  • 6. The Kokinshū Prefaces
  • 7. The Kokinshū Text and Its Commentarial Tradition
  • 8. Translating the Kokinshū
  • Appendix: Poets in This Book
  • Bibliography and Further Reading
  • Index