FROM THE COUNTRY OF EIGHT ISLANDS: AN ANTHOLOGY OF JAPANESE POETRY
by Sato, Hiroaki and Burton Watson (Introduction by Thomas Rimer)
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good in Good Plus Dustjacket
- ISBN 10
- 0295957980
- ISBN 13
- 9780295957982
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About This Item
Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 1981. Hardcover. Very Good in Good Plus Dustjacket. Octavo. Blue cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering to spine. Clean, sharp corners,, bright text block. Dustjacket illustration features "Portrait of Fujiwara Teika (1162-1241). xliv + pp. 652, including index. Review copy with publisher's slips laid in (a trifle creased).
"...Sato and Watson have p;ut together not just a compilation of Japanese poems, but a primer for the study of the tradition itself, beginning with the 8th century 'Kojiki' and 'Man'yoshu' up through the startlingly Westernized poets of modern Japan...This is a landmark anthology." (Publishers Weekly, quoted on front dustjacket flap).
"...Sato and Watson have p;ut together not just a compilation of Japanese poems, but a primer for the study of the tradition itself, beginning with the 8th century 'Kojiki' and 'Man'yoshu' up through the startlingly Westernized poets of modern Japan...This is a landmark anthology." (Publishers Weekly, quoted on front dustjacket flap).
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- Aardvark Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 87268
- Title
- FROM THE COUNTRY OF EIGHT ISLANDS: AN ANTHOLOGY OF JAPANESE POETRY
- Author
- Sato, Hiroaki and Burton Watson (Introduction by Thomas Rimer)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Good Plus Dustjacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0295957980
- ISBN 13
- 9780295957982
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press
- Place of Publication
- Seattle, WA
- Date Published
- 1981
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry;
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