Man'yōshū (Book 15): A New Translation Containing the Original Text, Kana Transliteration, Romanization, Glossing and Commentary

by Alexander Vovin

This new translation, the lifework of the author, is fully academically oriented. Given that it is the largest Japanese poetic anthology and thus the most important compendium of Japanese culture of the Asuka period (AD 592-710) and most of the Nara period (AD 710-784), it is very much more than a work of literature, which has been the single focus of previous translations by Pierson and Suga.Thus, in this translation the author has sought to present...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1906876037
• ISBN13: 9781906876036
• Release Date: August 2009
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.8" x 9.8"