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A hundred verses from old Japan : being a translation of the Hyaku-nin-isshu

Translated by William N. Porter

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Compiled in the thirteenth century, the “Ogura Hyakunin Isshu” is one of Japan’s most quoted and illustrated works, as influential to the development of Japanese literary traditions as “The Tale of Genji” and “The Tales of Ise.” This text is an anthology

japanese title: Ogura hyakunin isshu
notes: Japanese title: Ogura hyakunin isshu.
subjects: Hyakunin isshu
Waka
genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9784805308530
OCLC number: 174144411
publisher: Clarendon Press, 1909; Tuttle, 1979, 1997, 2007
publication place: Oxford; Rutland, VT, North Clarendon, VT
english publication date: 1909
document type: Book
description: xiv, 100, 100 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm