Beschreibung:
"Monumental in size and extraordinary in quality. . . . As a translator, Cranston is unexcelled, both in the uncompromising accuracy of his readings and in his sense of the weight and music of English words."--Choice.>
A note on numbering and source abbreviations; Introduction; Songs from the Chronicles and Fudoki; Kojiki songs; Nihonshok songs; Fudoki songs; Shoku Nihongi songs; Selections from Man'yoshu; Poems by named poets; Poem exchanges and poem groups of multiple composition; Anonymous poems; The Buddha's Footstone poems; Glossary; Notes; Bibliography; Conversion tables; Indexes.