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Record Nr.

UNINA9910153367403321

Autore

Vovin Alexander

Titolo

Man'yōshū (Book 18) : a New English Translation Containing the Original Text, Kana Transliteration, Romanization, Glossing and Commentary

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden : , : BRILL, , 2016

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (186 pages) : illustrations, tables

Disciplina

895.61008

Soggetti

Waka

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary material / Alexander Vovin -- INTRODUCTION / Alexander Vovin -- MAN’YŌSHŪ BOOK EIGHTEEN / Alexander Vovin -- BIBLIOGRAPHY / Alexander Vovin.

Sommario/riassunto

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.