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A hundred verses from old Japan : being a translation of the Hyaku-nin-isshiu

by William N. Porter

(Tut books, P)

C.E. Tuttle, 1979

Other Title

小倉百人一首

百人一首

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Note

Compilation variously attributed to Fujiwara Sadaie, Utsunomijya Yoritsuna, and others. Cf. Waka bungaku daijiten ; Fujimura's Nihon bungaku daijiten

In romanized Japanese and English on opposite pages, numbered in duplicate

Reprint of the 1909 ed. published by Clarendon Press, Oxford

Includes index

First Tuttle edition

Description and Table of Contents

Description

"A Hundred Verses from Old Japan" was originally collected in the thirteenth century. One of the most popular anthologies of Japanese classical poetry, this collection comprises love poems and opicture poemso describing scenes from nature in tanka form, thumbnail sketches compressed into thirty-one syllables.

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