A hundred verses from old Japan : being a translation of the Hyaku-nin-isshiu
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A hundred verses from old Japan : being a translation of the Hyaku-nin-isshiu
(Tut books, P)
C.E. Tuttle, 1979
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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
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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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