Kokon Meikashū


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Kokinshū


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This book is the first complete translation of the tenth-century work Kokinshu, one of the most important anthologies of the Japanese classical tradition.







古今名歌集


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These volumes primarily contain tanka or "short poems" of thirty-one syllables. This style of poetry dates to over twenty centuries and was written throughout the Japanese Empire. The anthology includes one thousand ancient and modern tanka. Some were selected not for their instrinsic value but for the interesting stories connected to them which the author felt illustrated "national traits".







Traditional Japanese Poetry


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This anthology brings together in convenient form a rich selection of Japanese poetry in traditional genres dating from the earliest times to the 20th century. With more than 1,100 poems, it is the most varied and comprehensive selection of traditional Japanese poetry now available in English. A romanized Japanese text accompanies each poem, and the book is illustrated with 20 line drawings.




Shinkokinshū (2 vols)


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The Shinkokinshū: A New Collection of Poems Ancient and Modern (ca. 1205) is supreme among the twenty-one anthologies of court poetry ordered by the Japanese emperors between the tenth and fifteenth centuries in terms of overall literary art, the high quality of the almost two thousand poems included, and the depth of poetic sentiment. Laurel Rasplica Rodd's complete translation allows the reader to appreciate the elaborate integration of the anthologized poems into a single whole by means of chronological procession or imagistic association from one poem to the next that was perfected in the Shinkokinshū by Retired Emperor Gotoba, himself a serious poet, and the courtiers he appointed as compilers, including Fujiwara no Teika, one of the greatest of Japanese poets.




One Hundred Poems from the Japanese


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A collection of Japanese poems accompanied by their English translations.