Preliminary Material /Alexander Vovin -- Introduction /Alexander Vovin -- Man'yōshū Book Nineteen /Alexander Vovin -- Bibliography /Alexander Vovin. Book nineteen of the Man'yōshū ('Anthology of Myriad Leaves') continues Alexander Vovin's new English translation of this 20-volu…
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This book explores how two early modern and two modern Japanese writers Yosa Buson (171683), Ema Saiko (17871861), Masaoka Shiki (18671902), and Natsume Soseki (18671916) experimented with the poetic artifice afforded by the East Asian literati (bunjin) tradition, a repertoire o…
This examination of death rituals in early Japan finds in the practice of double burial a key to understanding the Taika Era (645-710 A.D.). Drawing on narratives and poems from the earliest Japanese texts--the Kojiki, the Nihonshoki, and the Man'yoshu, an anthology of poetry--i…
