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Japanese women poets : an anthology

Translated by Hiroaki Sato

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This anthology encompasses all the major Japanese women poets, over one hundred, arranged chronologically and all the major verse forms: choka, tanka, haikai (haiku), kanshi (verse written in Chinese), and free verse.

notes: Contents: Ancient songs, Poems from the Man’yoshu, The age of Tanka, The age of Haikai and Kanshi, Interludes, The modern age.
subjects: Women authors
genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9780765617835
9780765617842
OCLC number: 997372216
70131159
publisher: M.E. Sharpe; Routledge
publication place: Armonk, NY; London
english publication date: 2007
document type: Book
description: xliv, 592 p. : ill. ; 6 x 9 in.
related: An East Gate book.