Only Companion
Japanese Poems of Love and Longing (Shambhala Centaur Editions)
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Word Count
31,000 words, Guess
Page Count
124 pages
Physical Format
Paperback
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL8697436M
- ISBN-139781570623004
- ISBN-101570623007
- OCLC Control Number34967851
- Library of Congress Control Number96024158
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- LibraryThing548306
- Goodreads1115795
Classifications
- LCCPL782.E3 O587 1997
Description
Written by court princesses, exiled officials, Zen priests, and recluses, the one hundred and fifty 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 fleeting experience of the moment. The translator has selected these five-line tanka - one of the great traditional verse forms of Japanese literature - from sources ranging from the classical imperial anthologies of the eighth and tenth centuries to works of the early twentieth century.
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