Main Man'yōshū, Book 20: A New English Translation Containing the Original Text, Kana Transliteration, Romanization, Glossing and Commentary
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Man'yōshū, Book 20: A New English Translation Containing the Original Text, Kana Transliteration, Romanization, Glossing and Commentary

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Book twenty (20.4293-4516) of the Man'yōshū comprises 224 poems (218 tanka, six chōka) with unspecified genres. From the social point of view this book is the most varied one, as it includes poems from empresses and princes, various strata of the nobility, down to the lowest border guard soldiers. Organized chronologically, book twenty is important for two important reasons. First, it contains many poems written in Eastern Old Japanese. Second, given the fact that many authors of the poems written in Western Old Japanese are well known historical and political figures of the mid-eighth century, it provides an interesting literary background to political struggles that were taking place at this time at the Nara court. Following book twenty the publication sequence will be as follows: book seventeen, book eighteen, book nineteen, book one, book nine, and then starting from book two in numerical order. A full rationale for the publication sequence can be found in book fifteen. Each volume of this new translation contains the original text, kana transliteration, romanization, glossing and commentary.
Request Code : ZLIBIO2951791
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Year:
2013
Publisher:
Global Oriental
Language:
English
Pages:
318
ISBN 10:
9004261982
ISBN 13:
9789004261983
ISBN:
9004261982,9789004261983

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