The kokinshū : selected poems / translated and introduced by Torquil Duthie.

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"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 diverse a...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Kokin wakashū. English.
Translations from the Asian classics.
Other Authors: Duthie, Torquil (Translator, Writer of introduction)
Language:English
Language of the Original:
Japanese
Language and/or Writing System:
English text, partially translated from the Japanese.
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, [2023]
Series:Translations from the Asian classics.
Subjects:
Waka > Translations into English.
Japanese poetry > Heian period, 794-1185 > Translations into English.
Kokin wakashū.
Waka > History and criticism.
Japanese poetry > Heian period, 794-1185 > History and criticism.
Japanese poetry > Heian period.
Waka.
794-1185
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Literary criticism.
Tanka.
Translations.
Genre:
Translations into English.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Literary criticism.
Tanka.
Translations.
Physical Description:xii, 408 pages ; 22 cm.
Format: Book

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