Man'yōshū : A New English Translation Containing the Original Text, Kana Transliteration, Romanization, Glossing and Commentary. Book 16 / by Alexander Vovin.

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English
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Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2021]
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Book sixteen of the Man'yōshū ('Anthology of Myriad Leaves') continues Alexander Vovin's new English translation of this 20-volume work originally compiled between c.759 and 785 AD. It is the earliest Japanese poetic anthology in existence and thus the most important compendium of Japanese culture of the Asuka and Nara periods. Book two is the tenth volume of the Man'yōshū to be published to date (following books fifteen (2009), five (2011), fourteen (2012), twenty (2013), seventeen (2016), eighteen (2016), one (2017), nineteen (2018), and two (2020) Each volume of the Vovin translation contains the original text, kana transliteration, romanization, glossing and commentary.
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Electronic reproduction. Leiden, Netherlands Available via World Wide Web.
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Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 02, 2021).
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Man'yōshu, Book 16
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  • 9789004440210 ((electronic book))
  • 9004440216 ((electronic book))
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1227386592
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