Man'yōshū (Book 14): A New English Translation Containing the Original Text, Kana Transliteration, Romanization, Glossing and Commentary (English and Japanese Edition) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9004233598 ISBN 13: 9789004233591

Publisher: Brill, 2012

Synopsis

Book fourteen of the Man'yōshῡ ('Anthology of Myriad Leaves') continues Alexander Vovin's new English translation of this 20-volume major work which was compiled between c.759 and 782 AD, making it the earliest and largest Japanese poetic anthology in existence and thus the most important compendium of Japanese culture of the Asuka and Nara periods.

Book fourteen is the third volume of the Man'yōshῡ to be published to date (following books fifteen (2009) and five (2011)) and contains 230 tanka poems, together with a few significant variants, bringing the total to 249.

This volume will be followed by publication of book twenty (2013) (instead of the previously announced book seventeen) on account of the fact that book twenty also contains many poems by Border Guards written in the same Eastern Old Japanese (EOJ) as do many of the Azuma-period poems that are contained in book fourteen.

Each volume of this new translation contains the original text, kana transliteration, romanization, glossing and commentary.

About this title

About the Author:

Alexander Vovin, Professor of East Asian Languages at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, has published extensively on Japanese, Ainu, Korean and Tungusic, as well as other languages of East and Inner Asia. Among his major works are A Reconstruction of Proto-Ainu (Brill, 1993), A Reference Grammar of Classical Japanese Prose (RoutledgeCurzon, 2003) and Nihongo Keitoron no Genzai/Perspectives on the Origins of the Japanese Language (co-edited with Osada Toshiki, the International Center for Japanese Studies, Kyoto, 2003).

About this edition

• Publisher: Brill
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 9004233598
• ISBN 13: 9789004233591
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 288
• Editor: Vovin Alexander