| Shinkokinshū (2 Vols): New Collection of Poems Ancient and Modern Contributor(s): Rodd (Editor), Rodd (Translator) |
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ISBN: 9004287582 ISBN-13: 9789004287587 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $308.75 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: April 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | Anthologies (multiple Authors) - Literary Criticism | Asian - General - Social Science | Sociology - General |
| Dewey: 895.610 |
| Series: Brill's Japanese Studies Library |
| Physical Information: 2.4" H x 6.4" W x 9.5" (3.85 lbs) 976 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Asian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The Shinkokinshū A New Collection of Poems Ancient and Modern (ca. 1205) is supreme among the twenty-one anthologies of court poetry ordered by the Japanese emperors between the tenth and fifteenth centuries in terms of overall literary art, the high quality of the almost two thousand poems included, and the depth of poetic sentiment. Laurel Rasplica Rodd's complete translation allows the reader to appreciate the elaborate integration of the anthologized poems into a single whole by means of chronological procession or imagistic association from one poem to the next that was perfected in the Shinkokinshū by Retired Emperor Gotoba, himself a serious poet, and the courtiers he appointed as compilers, including Fujiwara no Teika, one of the greatest of Japanese poets. |