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Love Songs from the Man'yoshu: Selections from a Japanese Classic

ISBN-13: 9784770026422

Contributor(s): Makoto Ooka (author), Ian Hideo Levy (translated by)

Subject: Poetry by Individual Poets

Publisher Imprint: Kodansha Books

Publication Date: 01-08-2000

Format: Paperback

Availability: Out of stock

£16.99

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About the book

It was the first golden age of Japanese civilization. Suddenly, in the eighth century, there appeared the great metropolis of Nara, its broad avenues lined with magnificent temples. Culture rushed in from Korea, from China, and, over the Silk Road, from as far away as Persia. And in this age Japanese literature found its first voice, a clear and powerful one, in the Man'yoshu. Literally The Collection of the Thousand Leaves,' this sweeping anthology, its poets ranging from emperors to beggars, is often considered the pinnacle of Japanese verse.
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