The Kokinshū : : Selected Poems.
Compiled in the early tenth century, the Kokinshū is an anthology of some eleven hundred poems that aimed to elevate the prestige of vernacular Japanese poetry at the imperial court. From shortly after its completion to the end of the nineteenth century, it was celebrated as the cornerstone of the J...
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Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2023] ©2023 |
Year of Publication: | 2023 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Translations from the Asian Classics
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part 1. Translation
- Mana Preface
- Selected Poems from Kokinwakashū
- Kana Preface
- Part 2. 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
- TRANSLATIONS FROM THE ASIAN CLASSICS