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Man'yōshū (Book 18) : a New English Translation Containing the Original Text, Kana Transliteration, Romanization, Glossing and Commentary.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Vovin, Alexander.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Waka.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (186 pages) : illustrations, tables
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden : BRILL, 2016.
- Summary:
- Book eighteen 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. Book eighteen is the sixth volume of the Man’yōshū to be published to date (following books fifteen (2009), five (2011), fourteen (2012), twenty (2013) and seventeen (2016). Each volume of the Vovin translation contains the original text, kana transliteration, romanization, glossing and commentary.
- Contents:
- Preliminary material / Alexander Vovin
- INTRODUCTION / Alexander Vovin
- MAN’YŌSHŪ BOOK EIGHTEEN / Alexander Vovin
- BIBLIOGRAPHY / Alexander Vovin.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- OCLC:
- 965157770
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/9789004315600 DOI
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