Kokinshu - Selected Poems

Compiled in the early tenth century, the Kokinsh¿ 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.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I. Translation
Mana Preface
Selected Poems from the Kokinwakash¿
Kana Preface
Part II. Essays
1. Poetry Before the Heian Period
2. The Heian Court and Kana Writing
3. The Conception and Structure of the Kokinsh¿
4. Topics of Composition
5. Prosody and Rhetorical Conventions
6. The Kokinsh¿ Prefaces
7. The Kokinsh¿ Text and Its Commentarial Tradition
8. Translating the Kokinsh¿
Appendix: Poets in This Book
Bibliography and Further Reading
Index

About the author

Torquil Duthie is professor of Japanese literature at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of Man'y¿sh¿ and the Imperial Imagination in Early Japan (2014).

Summary

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.

Product details

• Assisted by: Torquil Duthie (Translation), Duthie Torquil (Translation)
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.05.2023
• EAN: 9780231207638
• ISBN: 978-0-231-20763-8
• No. of pages: 432
• Series: Translations from the Asian Classics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Japan, Poetry, POETRY / Asian / Japanese, LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Japanese, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Asian / Japanese, Literature: history & criticism, Anthologies: general, Literature: history and criticism, Poetry; literary criticism