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A Waka Anthology, Volume Two: Grasses of Remembrance
Contributor(s): Cranston, Edwin A. (Translator)

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ISBN: 080474825X     ISBN-13: 9780804748254
Publisher: Stanford University Press
OUR PRICE: $190.00  

Binding Type: Hardcover
Published: February 2006
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Annotation: "So clearly a labor of love, Grasses of Remembrance deserves the widest possible audience."-- Monumenta Nipponica

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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | Asian - General
- History | Asia - General
Dewey: 895.610
LCCN: 91048074
Series: Waka Anthology
Physical Information: 3.14" H x 6.86" W x 9.48" L (5.14 lbs) 1312 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Asian
Features: Bibliography, Index
Review Citations: Choice 09/01/2006 pg. 106
 
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Grasses of Remembrance, the second volume of Edwin Cranston's monumental Waka Anthology, carries forward the story of Japanese court poetry through its Early Classical period, drawing from sources dating from the 890s to the 1080s. These two centuries saw the revival of the prestige of poetry in the native tongue after a century of official preference for versification in Chinese. An anthology of anthologies, Grasses of Remembrance draws copiously from the first four imperially ordered collections, Kokinshu, Gosenshu, Shuishu, and Goshuishu, examining the structure and illustrating the content of each. In all, the book contains over 2,600 poems in lively and readable translation, including selections from Shinsen Man'yoshu, a late-ninth-century collection of parallel verses in Chinese and Japanese, and all 795 poems from The Tale of Genji.

 
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