Only Companion

Japanese Poems of Love and Longing

Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, Asian, Far Eastern, Poetry
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Author: ISBN: 9780834824973
Publisher: Shambhala Publication: November 14, 2006
Imprint: Shambhala Language: English
Author:
ISBN: 9780834824973
Publisher: Shambhala
Publication: November 14, 2006
Imprint: Shambhala
Language: English

Written by court princesses, exiled officials, Zen priests, and recluses, the 150 poems translated here represent the rich diversity of Japan’s poetic tradition. Varying in tone from the sensuous and erotic to the profoundly spiritual, each poem captures a sense of the poignant beauty and longing known only in the fleeting experience of the moment. The translator has selected these five-line tanka—one of the great traditional verse forms of Japanese literature—from sources ranging from the classical imperial anthologies of the eighth and tenth centuries to works of the early twentieth century.

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Written by court princesses, exiled officials, Zen priests, and recluses, the 150 poems translated here represent the rich diversity of Japan’s poetic tradition. Varying in tone from the sensuous and erotic to the profoundly spiritual, each poem captures a sense of the poignant beauty and longing known only in the fleeting experience of the moment. The translator has selected these five-line tanka—one of the great traditional verse forms of Japanese literature—from sources ranging from the classical imperial anthologies of the eighth and tenth centuries to works of the early twentieth century.

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