Stanford University Press, Date: 1993. Paperback. Good. Disclaimer:Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. 1993. Stanford University Press ISBN 0804722129 9780804722124 [US]

Stanford CA: Stanford University Press, Date: 1991. Paperback. Near Fine. 514 pages; 6 x 9" Includes more than 1,100 poems in traditional genres dating from the earliest times to the twentieth century. Cover corners are lightly creased; various top page corners are creased. 1991. Stanford University Press ISBN 0804722129 9780804722124 [US]

Stanford University Press. Pages Are Clean, Bright And Tight. A Trade Size Paperback With A Display Quality Spine. . Near Fine. Soft cover. Date: 1993. B/W illustrations throughout. (see photos) (315-C) 1993. Stanford University Press ISBN 0804722129 9780804722124 [US]

Stanford, Stanford University Press, 1991 1993 paperback Translated with introduction by Steven D. Carter. Includes poems from the ancient age about 400 A.D., the medieval ages, through modern Haiku. --Softcover. Condition: near fine. ISBN 0804722129.

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Stanford Univ Pr, Date: 1993. Paperback. New. 1st edition. 536 pages. 9.25x6.25x1.25 inches. 1993. Stanford Univ Pr ISBN 0804722129 9780804722124 [GB]

ISBN10: 0804722129, ISBN13: 9780804722124, [publisher: Stanford University Press] Softcover This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. Clean from markings. In good all round condition. Dust jacket in good condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,850grams, ISBN:9780804722124
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ISBN10: 0804722129, ISBN13: 9780804722124, [publisher: Stanford University Press] Softcover This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. Clean from markings. In good all round condition. Dust jacket in good condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,850grams, ISBN:9780804722124
[Lincoln, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1991]

ISBN10: 0804722129, ISBN13: 9780804722124, [publisher: Stanford University Press, United States, Palo Alto] Softcover This anthology brings togethere in convenient form a rich selection of Japanese poetry in traditional genres dating back from the earliest times to the twentieth century. With more than 1,100 poems, it is the most varied and comprehensive selection of traditional Japanese poetry now available in English. Ezra Pound called poetry "the most concentrated form of verbal expression," and the great poets of Japan wrote poems as charged and compressed as poems can be. The Japanese language, with its few consonates and even fewer vowels, did not lend itself to expansive forms, making small seem better and perhaps more powerful. There is also the historical context in which Japanese poetry developedthe highly refined society of the early courts of Nara and Kyoto. In this setting, poetry came to be used as much for communication between lovers and friends as for artistic expression, and a tradition of cryptic statement evolved, with notes passed from sleeve to sleeve or conundrums exchanged furtively in the night. Add to this the high sense of decorum that dominated court society for centuries, and you have the conditions that led to the development of the classical uta (also referred to as tanka or waka), the thrity-one-syllable form that acts as the foundation for virtually all poetry written in Japanese between 850 and 1900. In choosing poems, the ...

ISBN10: 0804722129, ISBN13: 9780804722124, [publisher: Stanford University Press, United States, Palo Alto] Softcover This anthology brings togethere in convenient form a rich selection of Japanese poetry in traditional genres dating back from the earliest times to the twentieth century. With more than 1,100 poems, it is the most varied and comprehensive selection of traditional Japanese poetry now available in English. Ezra Pound called poetry "the most concentrated form of verbal expression," and the great poets of Japan wrote poems as charged and compressed as poems can be. The Japanese language, with its few consonates and even fewer vowels, did not lend itself to expansive forms, making small seem better and perhaps more powerful. There is also the historical context in which Japanese poetry developedthe highly refined society of the early courts of Nara and Kyoto. In this setting, poetry came to be used as much for communication between lovers and friends as for artistic expression, and a tradition of cryptic statement evolved, with notes passed from sleeve to sleeve or conundrums exchanged furtively in the night. Add to this the high sense of decorum that dominated court society for centuries, and you have the conditions that led to the development of the classical uta (also referred to as tanka or waka), the thrity-one-syllable form that acts as the foundation for virtually all poetry written in Japanese between 850 and 1900. In choosing poems, the ...