Author: Gladys E. Nakahara
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780889461574
Category : Ballads, Japanese
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
A Translation of Ryôjinhishô, a Compendium of Japanese Folk Songs (Imayô) from the Heian Period, (794 - 1185)
Author: Gladys E. Nakahara
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780889461574
Category : Ballads, Japanese
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780889461574
Category : Ballads, Japanese
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
A Translation of Ryôjinhishô, a Compendium of Japanese Folk Songs (Imayô) from the Heian Period, 794-1185
Author: Gladys E. Nakahara
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
What CHOICE says: The Ryoojinhishoo provides rare insight into the lives and culture of common people in the Heian period. Songs of prostitutes, cormorant fishermen, children, gamblers, and mothers voice timeless emotions. The other scholarly monograph in English on the Ryoojinhishoo, Yung-Hee Kim's outstanding Songs to Make the Dust Dance (CH, Jul'94), provides a translation of 222 of the extant songs and gives a full account of Emperor Go-Shirakawa's relationship to the collection. Nakahara includes translations of all 571 extant songs, and her introduction sets the songs in the context of a masterfully reconstructed history of the folk-song genre. The previously untranslated songs include many on Buddhist themes. These songs are a priceless record of how ordinary people in the Heian period understood Buddhism; indeed, their existence refutes the notion that popular Buddhism began in the Kamakura period. Nakahara's translations, accompanied by romanized versions of the original, are fluid and well annotated. This fine work is both scholarly and imminently accessible in style and content. When the print-run of this hard-cover edition is exhausted, some press should consider it for a paperback edition. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All collections supporting the study of Japanese literature and culture.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
What CHOICE says: The Ryoojinhishoo provides rare insight into the lives and culture of common people in the Heian period. Songs of prostitutes, cormorant fishermen, children, gamblers, and mothers voice timeless emotions. The other scholarly monograph in English on the Ryoojinhishoo, Yung-Hee Kim's outstanding Songs to Make the Dust Dance (CH, Jul'94), provides a translation of 222 of the extant songs and gives a full account of Emperor Go-Shirakawa's relationship to the collection. Nakahara includes translations of all 571 extant songs, and her introduction sets the songs in the context of a masterfully reconstructed history of the folk-song genre. The previously untranslated songs include many on Buddhist themes. These songs are a priceless record of how ordinary people in the Heian period understood Buddhism; indeed, their existence refutes the notion that popular Buddhism began in the Kamakura period. Nakahara's translations, accompanied by romanized versions of the original, are fluid and well annotated. This fine work is both scholarly and imminently accessible in style and content. When the print-run of this hard-cover edition is exhausted, some press should consider it for a paperback edition. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All collections supporting the study of Japanese literature and culture.
Directory of Japan Specialists and Japanese Studies Institutions in the United States and Canada: Japan specialists
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
Books In Print 2004-2005
Author: Ed Bowker Staff
Publisher: R. R. Bowker
ISBN: 9780835246422
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 3274
Book Description
Publisher: R. R. Bowker
ISBN: 9780835246422
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 3274
Book Description
Forthcoming Books
Author: Rose Arny
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1306
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1306
Book Description
萬葉集
Author: Alexander Vovin
Publisher: Man'yōshū
ISBN: 9789004431850
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Book two of the Man'yōshū('Anthology of Myriad Leaves') continues Alexander Vovin's new English translation of this 20-volume work originally compiled between c.759 and 785 AD. It is the earliest Japanese poetic anthology in existence and thus the most important compendium of Japanese culture of the Asuka and Nara periods. Book two is the ninth volume of the Man'yōshūto be published to date (following books fifteen (2009), five (2011), fourteen (2012), twenty (2013), seventeen (2016), eighteen (2016), one (2017), and nineteen (2018). Each volume of the Vovin translation contains the original text, kanatransliteration, romanization, glossing and commentary.
Publisher: Man'yōshū
ISBN: 9789004431850
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Book two of the Man'yōshū('Anthology of Myriad Leaves') continues Alexander Vovin's new English translation of this 20-volume work originally compiled between c.759 and 785 AD. It is the earliest Japanese poetic anthology in existence and thus the most important compendium of Japanese culture of the Asuka and Nara periods. Book two is the ninth volume of the Man'yōshūto be published to date (following books fifteen (2009), five (2011), fourteen (2012), twenty (2013), seventeen (2016), eighteen (2016), one (2017), and nineteen (2018). Each volume of the Vovin translation contains the original text, kanatransliteration, romanization, glossing and commentary.