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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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English Japanese |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
[2023]
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| Series: | Translations from the Asian classics.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7312/duth20762 |
Table of Contents:
- 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