Buy this book on-line McMillan, Peter : ONE HUNDRED POETS, ONE POEM EACH: A TRANSLATION OF THE OGURA HYAKUNIN ISSHUColumbia University Press, 2010 ISBN 9780231143998
The Ogura Hyakunin Isshu is one of Japan's most quoted and illustrated work s, as influential to the development of Japanese literary traditions as The Tale of Genji and The Tales of Ise. The text is an anthology of one hundre d waka poems, each written by a different poet from the seventh to the midd le of the thirteenth century, which is when Fujiwara no Teika, a renowned p oet and scholar, assembled the collection. The book features poems by high- ranking court officials and members of the imperial family, and despite the ir similarity in composition, they involve a wide range of emotions, imager y, and themes, from frost settling on a bridge of magpie wings to the conti nuity of the imperial line. Peter McMillan's poetic translation captures the original emotions of these poems. They are accompanied by calligraphic versions in Japanese and line drawings depicting the individual poets, while explanatory notes place the poems in context. An appendix includes both the poems' Japanese and romanized versions, making this edition of the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu both a superior introduction to Japan and its special lyric tradition and an excellent textbook for the study of Japanese language and literature., As New Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of McMillan, Peter : ONE HUNDRED POETS, ONE POEM EACH: A TRANSLATION OF THE OGURA HYAKUNIN ISSHU. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including incunabula, libri rari, libri antichi, livres d'occasion and livres anciens. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |