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The Penguin Book of Japanese Verse

✍ Scribed by Thwaite, Anthony (editor); (Introduction), Geoffrey Bownas

Book ID: 109299059
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Year: 2009
Tongue: en-GB
Weight: 2 MB
Category: Fiction
ISBN-13: 9780141931890

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✦ Synopsis

Poetry remains a living part of the culture of Japan today. The clichés of everyday speech are often to be traced to famous ancient poems, and the traditional forms of poetry are widely known and loved. The congenial attitude comes from a poetical history of about a millennium and a half. This classic collection of verse therefore contains poetry from the earliest, primitive period, through the Nara, Heian, Kamakura, Muromachi and Edo periods, ending with modern poetry from 1868 onwards, including the rising poets Tamura Ryuichi and Tanikawa Shuntaro.

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