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Classic Japanese Poetry

Classic Japanese Poetry

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Product Code:
365-01
ISBN
978-954-321-401-3
SKU
11.0041
Year
16-11-2007
Translation
compilation and translation from Japanese: Bratislav Ivanov
Pages
112
Size
130/200 мм
Weight
0.158 kg
Cover Type
Paperback
Genre
Japan, Poetry

Bratislav Ivanov (compilation)

Bratislav Ivanov (compilation)

Bratislav Ivanov (born March 29, 1945) is a Bulgarian author of works in linguistics and culture of Japan and a translator from Japanese language. He graduated in Japanese Language and Literature from the Moscow State University. He has specialized in the Japanese Language Institute at the Japanese Foundation. He is the author of many Japanese language articles and books, as well as a series of tr…

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THE TRADITIONAL JAPANESE POETRY

Compiled sometime after 759, the oldest poetic anthology of waka is the 20 volume Man'yōshū, in the early part of the Heian period, it gathered ancient works. The order of its sections is roughly chronological. Most of the works in the Man'yōshū have a fixed form today called chōka and tanka. But earlier works, especially in Volume I, lacked such fixed form and were attributed to Emperor Yūryaku. In In the middle of the Heian period (905) Waka revived with the compilation of the Kokin Wakashū. It was edited on the order of Emperor Daigo. About 1,000 waka, mainly from the late Nara period till the contemporary times, were anthologized by five waka poets in the court including Ki no Tsurayuki who wrote the kana preface (仮名序 kanajo)

The Kana preface to Kokin Wakashū was the second earliest expression of literary theory and criticism in Japan (the earliest was by Kūkai). Kūkai's literary theory was not influential, but Kokin Wakashū set the types of waka and hence other genres which would develop from waka.  Emperor Daigo assigned a group of famous poets , led by Ki and Tsurayuki, to compose a new anthology, which is called Kokinwakash. A collection of old and new Japanese songs, but is better known as Kokinishu.

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