Manyoshu Book 1

Download or read book The Manyōshū written by and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Man’yōshū (Book 5) written by and published by Global Oriental. This book was released on 2011-01-25 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the second volume to be published in the 20-volume set. It includes 114 poems (104 tanka, ten choka), traditionally considered to be the zoka genre, although some of them can be classified as benka, since they deal with death and sorrow. It also contains two poems in Chinese. The volume has several long introductions (all written in Chinese) to the poems that follow. All the poems in this volume were composed between AD 724 and 733, which represents a much greater homogeneity in comparison to books one to four. Most of the poems were written by Yamanoue-no Okura (AD660-733), one of the greatest Man’yōshū poets, who was possibly a Korean from Kudara (Paekche), or at least a descendant of Kudara immigrants to Japan. The spelling system in this volume is predominantly phonographic, with only a few exceptions. In addition, the spelling system appears to reflect Early Western Old Japanese, as demonstrated by Bentley (1997, 2002). The same can be said about its overall grammatical features.

Download or read book Ten Thousand Leaves written by Anonymous and published by Harry N. Abrams. This book was released on 1988-06-06 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Manyoshu is the great literary work of eighth century Japan, a collection comprising work from more than four hundred writers. Its richness and nobility of sentiments have made the Manyoshu an object of literary fascination for centuries. Ten Thousand Leaves is a selection of love poems from this magnificent anthology,selected and translated by world renowned scholar Harold Wright and complemented by spectacular period art.

Download or read book Man’yōshū (Book 2) written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-07-27 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book two of the Man’yōshū (‘Anthology of Myriad Leaves’) continues Alexander Vovin’s new English translation of this 20-volume work originally compiled between c.759 and 785 AD. It is the earliest Japanese poetic anthology in existence and thus the most important compendium of Japanese culture of the Asuka and Nara periods.

Download or read book 1000 Poems from the Manyoshu written by Anonymous and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-12-13 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Features 1,000 poems from the oldest Japanese poetry anthology, chosen by a scholarly committee based on their poetic excellence and their role in revealing the Japanese national spirit and character. Text is in English only.

Download or read book Japanese Love Poems written by Evan Bates and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-06-20 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This original selection of verses from the time-honored collection of Japanese poetry reflects the many facets of love, from paeans to conjugal love to descriptions of fierce competition for spouses. Text is in English only.

Download or read book Land of the Reed Plains written by and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 1996-10-15 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of Japanese poetry and paintings is a wonderful addition to the collection of any enthusiast of Japanese poetry or culture. Land of the Reed Plains presents a rare and beautiful combination of Japanese lyric genius and artistic mastery. The poetry comes from the Manyoshu, Japan's earliest and greatest anthology and masterpiece of world literature, ably translated by Kenneth Yasuda. The 100 paintings that accompany the poems, each in full color, are the work of the contemporary Japanese artist Sanko Inoue. Their ability to evoke the beauties of an ancient past in a technique that speaks both of tradition and of today, confirms again the high and versatile place Sanko occupies in Japan's art world.