The Seasons Of Time: Tanka Poetry Of Ancient Japan
More than a thousand years ago, the Emperor of Japan commanded that the best poetry written in his domain since the beginning of recorded history be...
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More than a thousand years ago, the Emperor of Japan commanded that the best poetry written in his domain since the beginning of recorded history be collected for his Imperial enjoyment. The poet Ki no Tsurayuki was ordered to undertake the work and he produced the Kokinshū, or Collection of Ancient and Modern Poems. A hundred and fifty years earlier, a collection had been made called the Manyōshū, or Collection of a Myriad Leaves. Most of the poems in this volume were selected from these ancient compilations.
In both collections there are some poems drawn from folklore; others are by the greatest poets of their day. Some are by priests, others by shoguns. Some are by courtiers and at least one is "by a lady whose name we do not know." All of them, in Tsurayuki's words, "have their roots in the human heart and flourish in the countless leaves of words."
- Format:Library Binding
- Pages:62 pages
- Publication:1968
- Publisher:Dial Press
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- Language:eng
- ISBN10:080377785X
- ISBN13:9780803777859
- kindle Asin:080377785X
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