The Kokinshū: Selected Poems - (Duthie Torquil)

Columbia University Press 2023 Columbia University Press 432 Paperback / softback

Compiled in the early tenth century, the Kokinshu is an anthology of some eleven hundred poems that became celebrated as the cornerstone of the Japanese vernacular poetic tradition. This book offers an inviting and immersive selection of roughly one-third of the anthology in English translation.