String of beads : complete poems of Princess Shikishi / translated with an introduction and notes by Hiroaki Sato.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shikishi, Princess, daughter of Goshirakawa, Emperor of Japan, -1201, author.

Contributor:

Sato, Hiroaki, 1942- translator, editor.

佐藤, 紘彰, 1942- translator, editor.

Series:

SHAPS library of translations

Standardized Title:

Works. English. 1993

Language:

English

Japanese

Subjects (All):

Shikishi, Princess, daughter of Goshirakawa, Emperor of Japan, -1201--Translations into English.

Shikishi.

Shikishi, Princess, daughter of Goshirakawa, Emperor of Japan, -1201.

Genre:

Poetry.

Translations.

Physical Description:

x, 177 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [1993]

Language Note:

Poems in English and Romanized Japanese.

Summary:

Princess Shikishi, Emperor Goshirakawa's third daughter, who served as saiin, or shrine vestal, in her teens, left a body of poems luminous with tranquil beauty and sadness. In her own lifetime she was counted among the outstanding poets of the age. In this volume, noted translator Hiroaki Sato makes available in one-line form all of the tanka - 400 poems - attributed to Princess Shikishi.

Following an introduction that details Shikishi's era and the prosodic techniques of her time, Sato presents a group of poems gleaned from anthologies - among them a sequence of eleven which Shikishi wrote in condolence for the death of the wife of Fujiwara no Shunzei, her mentor - and three important 100-poem sequences. To provide allusive contexts, many of the poems are accompanied by extensive footnotes and endnotes, often with complete episodes from Tale of Ise and other classical texts.

Notes:

Translation of: Shikishi Naishinnō zenkashū.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-172) and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Shikishi, Princess, daughter of Goshirakawa, Emperor of Japan, -1201. Works. English. 1993. String of beads.

ISBN:

0824814835

9780824814830

OCLC:

28547364