A Waka Anthology, Volume Two: Grasses of Remembrance Contributor(s): Cranston, Edwin A. (Translator) |
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ISBN: 080474825X ISBN-13: 9780804748254 Publisher: Stanford University Press OUR PRICE: $190.00 Product Type: Hardcover Published: February 2006 Annotation: "So clearly a labor of love, Grasses of Remembrance deserves the widest possible audience."-- Monumenta Nipponica |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Asian - General - History | Asia - General |
Dewey: 895.610 |
LCCN: 91048074 |
Series: Waka Anthology |
Physical Information: 3.14" H x 6.86" W x 9.48" (5.14 lbs) 1312 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Asian |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Grasses of Remembrance, the second volume of Edwin Cranston's monumental Waka Anthology, carries forward the story of Japanese court poetry through its Early Classical period, drawing from sources dating from the 890s to the 1080s. These two centuries saw the revival of the prestige of poetry in the native tongue after a century of official preference for versification in Chinese. An anthology of anthologies, Grasses of Remembrance draws copiously from the first four imperially ordered collections, Kokinshu, Gosenshu, Shuishu, and Goshuishu, examining the structure and illustrating the content of each. In all, the book contains over 2,600 poems in lively and readable translation, including selections from Shinsen Man'yoshu, a late-ninth-century collection of parallel verses in Chinese and Japanese, and all 795 poems from The Tale of Genji. |