- Waka, Translations into English, Japanese poetry, Poetry (poetic works by one author)
"The best-loved and most widely read of all Japanese poetry collections, the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu contains 100 short poems on nature, the seasons, travel, and, above all, love. Dating back to the seventh century, these elegant, precisely observed waka poems (the precursor of haiku) express deep emotion through visual images based on a penetrating observation of the natural world. .."--Publisher description.
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- Author
- Peter McMillan
- First published
- 2018
- Pages
- 248
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Editions
- 1
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780141395937
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