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From the Morning of the World: Poems from the Manyoshu
by Wilson, Graeme (translated by)
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0002710781
- ISBN 13
- 9780002710787
- Seller
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Langport, Somerset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London, U.K. : The Harvill Press, 1991 This edition is the first anthology of Japanese poetry. Original dustjacket not price clipped which has some age and shelf wear - the dj edges are rubbed and there is a crease at the bottom of the front page of the dj. The boards are in better condition than the dj - tight copy. Previous owner has written in blue ink a note on the front endpaper; and on the half title page there is an inscription to the previous owner from a friend in blue ink. Otherwise no other markings in the book, clean text page. "The Manyoshu contained over 4,000 poems from 250-759 AD. It was intended to demonstrate that the poets of the Yamato ascendancy could match, and even out-match, the Chinese poetry that was then regarded as the model of literary perfection. In Graeme Wilson's vivid English, seventy-six of these remarkable poems by warrior princes and Imperial princesses, priests ad provincial governors, courtiers and lovers, frontier-guards and conscript soldiers, live again in all their beauty and vitality."
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- Aardvolk The Virtual Book Store
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000660
- Title
- From the Morning of the World: Poems from the Manyoshu
- Author
- Wilson, Graeme (translated by)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0002710781
- ISBN 13
- 9780002710787
- Publisher
- The Harvill Press
- Place of Publication
- London, U.K.
- Date Published
- 1991
- Keywords
- Japanes poetry
- Bookseller catalogs
- First Editions; Poetry;
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