The Kojiki - An Account of Ancient Matters

Japan's oldest surviving narrative, the eighth-century Kojiki, chronicles the mythical origins of its islands and their ruling dynasty through a diverse array of genealogies, tales, and songs that have helped to shape the modern nation's views of its ancient past. Gustav Heldt's engaging new translation of this revered classic aims to make the Kojiki accessible to contemporary readers while staying true to the distinctively dramatic and evocative appeal of the original's language. It conveys the rhythms that structure the Kojiki's animated style of storytelling and translates the names of its many people and places to clarify their significance within the narrative. An introduction, glossaries, maps, and bibliographies offer a wealth of additional information about Japan's earliest extant record of its history, literature, and religion.

Info autore

O no Yasumaro (d. 723) was a nobleman of the Japanese court whose O clan ruled over an area bearing the same name near the eighth-century capital of Nara.

Gustav Heldt is an associate professor of Japanese literature at the University of Virginia and the author of The Pursuit of Harmony: Poetry and Power in Early Heian Japan.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Gustav Heldt, no Yasumaro O, no Yasumaro Ō, O No Yasumaro
• Con la collaborazione di: Gustav Heldt (Traduzione), Heldt Gustav (Traduzione)
• Editore: Columbia University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 03.10.2014
• EAN: 9780231163897
• ISBN: 978-0-231-16389-7
• Pagine: 312
• Dimensioni: 154 mm x 230 mm x 14 mm
• Serie: Translations from the Asian Classics; Translations from the Asian Classics; Translations from Asian Classics (COUP)
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Religione / teologia > Altre religioni; Japan, RELIGION / Shintoism, Sacred texts, Sacred texts, scriptures and revered writings, Shintoism