Hitomaro and the Birth of Japanese Lyricism / / Ian Hideo Levy.

Professor Levy explores the ritual origins of Japanese verse, the impact of Chinese and Korean literary influence on the seventh-century Court, and the rhetorical deification of the imperial family as the condition under which Hitomaro would begin his career as a Court poet.Originally published in 1...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Archive (pre 2000) eBook Package
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]
©1984
Year of Publication:2014
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
Series:Princeton Legacy Library ; 734
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Physical Description:1 online resource (186 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • Map of Yamato and Environs
  • INTRODUCTION
  • ONE / YAMATO TAKERU: THE MAGICAL METAPHOR
  • TWO / ŌMI: THE LYRICAL VOICE
  • THREE / HITOMARO: THE ICONIC IMAGE
  • FOUR / HITOMARO: THE PSYCHOLOGICAL METAPHOR
  • SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX OF POEMS
  • GENERAL INDEX
  • Backmatter