Pictures of the Heart: The Hyakunin Isshu in Word and Image

by Joshua S Mostow

The Hyakunin Isshu, or One Hundred Poets, One Poem Each, is a sequence of one hundred Japanese poems in the tanka form, selected by the famous poet and scholar Fujiwara no Teika (1162-1241) and arranged, in part, to represent the history of Japanese poetry from the seventh century down to Teika's own day. The anthology is, without doubt, the most popular and widely known collection of poetry in Japan- a distinction it has maintained for hundreds...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082489538X
• ISBN13: 9780824895389
• Release Date: June 2023
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 544 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 7.0" x 9.9"