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100 Kokinshu selections

100 Shinkokinshu selections

A hundred verses from old Japan : being a translation of the Hyaku-nin-isshu

Compiled in the thirteenth century, the “Ogura Hyakunin Isshu” is one of Japan’s most quoted and illustrated works, as influential to the development of Japanese literary traditions as “The Tale of Genji” and “The Tales of Ise.” This text is an anthology

Awesome nightfall : the life, times, and poetry of Saigyo

This book captures the power of Saigyo’s poetry and this previously overlooked poet’s keen insight into the social and political world of medieval Japan.

Hyakunin isshu : 100 poems by 100 poets

Compiled in the thirteenth century, the “Ogura Hyakunin Isshu” is one of Japan’s most quoted and illustrated works, as influential to the development of Japanese literary traditions as “The Tale of Genji” and “The Tales of Ise.” This text is an anthology

Japan’s best loved poetry classic, Hyakunin isshu

Compiled in the thirteenth century, the “Ogura Hyakunin Isshu” is one of Japan’s most quoted and illustrated works, as influential to the development of Japanese literary traditions as “The Tale of Genji” and “The Tales of Ise.” This text is an anthology

Mirror for the moon : a selection of poems by Saigyo (1118-1190)

Poems.

One hundred poets : a Japanese anthology

Compiled in the thirteenth century, the “Ogura Hyakunin Isshu” is one of Japan’s most quoted and illustrated works, as influential to the development of Japanese literary traditions as “The Tale of Genji” and “The Tales of Ise.” This text is an anthology

One hundred poets, one poem each : a translation of the Ogura hyakunin isshu

Compiled in the thirteenth century, the “Ogura Hyakunin Isshu” is one of Japan’s most quoted and illustrated works, as influential to the development of Japanese literary traditions as “The Tale of Genji” and “The Tales of Ise.” This text is an anthology

Only companion : Japanese poems of love and longing

Written by court princesses, exiled officials, Zen priests, and recluses, the 150 poems translated here represent the rich diversity of Japan’s poetic tradition. Varying in tone from the sensuous and erotic to the profoundly spiritual, each poem captures a sense of the poignant beauty and longing known only in the …

Poem card : (the Hyakunin-isshu in English)

Compiled in the thirteenth century, the “Ogura Hyakunin Isshu” is one of Japan’s most quoted and illustrated works, as influential to the development of Japanese literary traditions as “The Tale of Genji” and “The Tales of Ise.” This text is an anthology

Saigyo (1118-1190) as a love poet : one hundred selections : (Japanese love poems. 401-500)

Poems.

Saigyo (1118-1190), the poet of reflective being and natural scene

Poems.

Saigyo, poems of a mountain home

Poems.

The little treasury of one hundred people, one poem each

Compiled in the thirteenth century, the “Ogura Hyakunin Isshu” is one of Japan’s most quoted and illustrated works, as influential to the development of Japanese literary traditions as “The Tale of Genji” and “The Tales of Ise.” This text is an anthology