William N. Porter

-- location: poetry--ancient (1) --translated (1) 1FLC6 (1) 4th (1) A Hundred Verses from Old Japan is an early translation of one of Japan's most famous anthologies of poetry. This gem of Japanese poetry has preserved its charm for almost a century while remaining the most popular of classical poetry anthologies among th (1) and fifth lines rhyming. His accompanying notes put the poems into a cultural and historical context. Each poem is illustrated with an eighteenth-century Japanese woodcut by an anonymous illustrator. (1) and the vicissitudes of love. There are obvious Buddhist and Shinto influences throughout. To make the sounds more familiar to English readers (1) Asian Literature (2) bilingual book (1) classical japanese (2) fiction (1) haiku (1) Hiyaku-nin-isshui (1) Hyakuninisshu (1) Japan (8) Japan (12) (1) Japanese (5) Japanese literature (6) Japanese poetry (3) lit:japanese>english (1) PDF (1) Pitcher Books (1) poetry (21) poetry anthology (1) tanka (1) the impermanence of life (1) the round of the seasons (1) the translator has adopted a five-line verse of 8-6-8-6-6 meter (1) waka (3) with the second (1)