02005oam 2200409I 450 991015336740332120230808200305.010.1163/9789004315600(CKB)3710000000951466(MiAaPQ)EBC4750778(OCoLC)965157770(nllekb)BRILL9789004315600(EXLCZ)99371000000095146620161203d2016 uy 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierMan'yōshū (Book 18) a New English Translation Containing the Original Text, Kana Transliteration, Romanization, Glossing and CommentaryLeiden :BRILL,2016.1 online resource (186 pages) illustrations, tables90-04-32252-3 90-04-31560-8 Includes bibliographical references.Preliminary material /Alexander Vovin -- INTRODUCTION /Alexander Vovin -- MAN’YŌSHŪ BOOK EIGHTEEN /Alexander Vovin -- BIBLIOGRAPHY /Alexander Vovin.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.WakaWaka.895.61008Vovin Alexander663521NL-LeKBNL-LeKBBOOK9910153367403321Man'yōshū (Book 18)3406839UNINA