Columbia University Press 1997 Hardcover Very Good Size: 6x0x9; [English Translation of the Wakan Roei Shu. ] Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Shelf wear. Front board slightly soiled. Bookseller's sticker on jacket. Pages unmarked. ix, 329 p., 24 cm.

ISBN10: 0231107021, ISBN13: 9780231107020, [publisher: Columbia University Press] Hardcover Very Good condition. Very Good dust jacket. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.
[Frederick, MD, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1997]

Columbia University Press. Used - Very Good. Very Good condition. Very Good dust jacket. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner’s name, short gifter’s inscription or light stamp. Columbia University Press ISBN 0231107021 9780231107020 [US]

New York Columbia University Press 1997 Hard cover New. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 272 p. Contains: Unspecified. Translations from the Asian Classics (Hardcover).

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[Hawthorne, CA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1997]

New York: Columbia University Press, Date: 1997. First printing. Hardcover. Near fine/near fine. Inscribed by Chaves and Addiss to J. Thomas Rimer! Cloth backed boards in dust jacket, octavo, frontispiece in color, otherwise illustrated in b&w. Book has hint of shelfwear to edges of boards, binding tight, Rimer's initials to front flyleaf, text clean and unmarked. DJ gently shelfworn. 1997. Columbia University Press ISBN 0231107021 9780231107020 [US]

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[Columbia, MD, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1997]
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[Tucson, AZ, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1997]

ISBN10: 0231107021, ISBN13: 9780231107020, [publisher: Columbia University Press] Hardcover This first-time English translation of the Wakan roei shu includes insightful annotations after each passage and several explanatory essays.&Uumlber den AutorrnrnEdited and Translated by J. Thomas Rimer and Jonathan ChavesKlappe.
[Greven, Germany] [Publication Year: 1997]
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[Castle Donington, DERBY, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1997]
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[Victoria, BC, Canada] [Publication Year: 1900]

ISBN10: 0231107021, ISBN13: 9780231107020, [publisher: Columbia University Press, New York] Hardcover Hardcover. This first English translation of the Wakan roei shu, includes two introductory essays, insightful commentaries on each passage, and three expositions, which discuss the collection's influence on Japanese literary history, music, and calligraphy. For centuries these short, evocative poems were memorized and cherished by Japanese courtiers who sang them at court, into lovers' ears, or at moments when spoken words failed to express their feelings. Until the Meiji Restoration (1868-1912), calligraphers, poets, and artists looked to the Wakan roei shu for inspiration, incorporating its text into many of Japan's most celebrated masterpieces, from the no play Takasago to the Tale of Genji and the calligraphy of Fujiwara no Yukinari, whose eleventh-century calligraphic interpretations of the collection were treasured by Japanese for centuries. The collection - arranged in accordance with the four seasons and covering more than forty topics, from celestial bodies to ministers of state - includes poems by some of the most beloved Chinese and Japanese masters, including Po Chu-i (772-846) and Sugawara no Michizane (845-903). Like haiku, the poems in the Wakan roei shu are brief and reflective, with many adhering to the classical Japanese poetic form of thirty-one syllables. Most of the Chinese selections in this book are excerpts taken from much longer ...

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[Long Beach, CA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1997]

ISBN10: 0231107021, ISBN13: 9780231107020, [publisher: Columbia University Press] Hardcover This first-time English translation of the Wakan roei shu includes insightful annotations after each passage and several explanatory essays. Editor(s): Rimer, J. Thomas; Chaves, Jonathan. Series: Translations from the Asian Classics. Num Pages: 272 pages, 10 illus. BIC Classification: 2GDC; 2GJ; DCQ; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 26. Weight in Grams: 681. . 1997. Hardback. . . . .
[Galway, GY, Ireland] [Publication Year: 1997]