Compiled in the early tenth century, the Kokinshu is an anthology of some eleven hundred poems that became celebrated as the cornerstone of the Japanese vernacular poetic tradition. This book offers an inviting and immersive selection of roughly one-third of the anthology in English translation.
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978-0-231-55705-4 (9780231557054)
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Torquil Duthie is professor of Japanese literature at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of Man'yoshu and the Imperial Imagination in Early Japan (2014).
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I. Translation
1. Mana Preface
2. Selected Poems from the Kokinwakashu
3. Kana Preface
Part II. Essays
4. Poetry Before the Heian Period
5. The Heian Court and Kana Writing
6. The Conception and Structure of the Kokinshu
7. Topics of Composition
8. Prosody and Rhetorical Conventions
9. The Kokinshu Prefaces
10. The Kokinshu Text and Its Commentarial Tradition
11. Translating the Kokinshu
Appendix: Poets in This Book
Notes
Bibliography and Further Reading
Index
