The Kokinshu by Torquil Duthie
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.-
The Lotus Sutra
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Zhuangzi: Basic Writings
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Chuang Tzu
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The Kojiki
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Zhuangzi
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Kukai
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The Vimalakirti Sutra
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The Essential Lotus
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The Columbia Book of Chinese Poetry
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The Book of Swindles
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Four Major Plays of Chikamatsu
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The Analects of Confucius
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The Complete Works of Zhuangzi
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Scripture of the Lotus Blossom of the Fine Dharma
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Saigyo
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The Mahabharata
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Han Feizi
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The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch
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One Hundred Poets, One Poem Each
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Original Tao
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Traditional Japanese Literature
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Selected Poems of Du Fu
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Essays in Idleness
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Mozi
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Traditional Japanese Theater
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The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu
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Ryokan
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Chushingura (The Treasury of Loyal Retainers)
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Early Modern Japanese Literature
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The Classic of the Way and Virtue
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Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching
These eminently readable and often beautiful translations will appeal to a new generation of readers in Japanese studies and beyondThe accompanying essays survey the genesis and afterlives of the collection and offer significant new insights on the original language of the poems and how to appreciate them in translation. -- Joseph T. Sorensen, author of Optical Allusions: Screens, Paintings, and Poetry in Classical Japan (ca. 800–1200)
From the cries of the warbler in spring to the lonely nights of longing for a lover, Duthie offers fresh translations from each book of the Kokinshū, while grounding us in histories of scripts, reading and writing practices, and the power of poetry in premodern Japan. -- Christina Laffin, author of Rewriting Medieval Japanese Women: Politics, Personality, and Literary Production in the Life of Nun Abutsu
This book should appeal to anyone interested in Japanese poetry, both for its evocative rendering of selections from the Kokinshū and for its concisely informative account of the classic waka anthology. -- Gustav Heldt, translator of The Kojiki: An Account of Ancient Matters
From the cries of the warbler in spring to the lonely nights of longing for a lover, Duthie offers fresh translations from each book of the Kokinshū, while grounding us in histories of scripts, reading and writing practices, and the power of poetry in premodern Japan. -- Christina Laffin, author of Rewriting Medieval Japanese Women: Politics, Personality, and Literary Production in the Life of Nun Abutsu
This book should appeal to anyone interested in Japanese poetry, both for its evocative rendering of selections from the Kokinshū and for its concisely informative account of the classic waka anthology. -- Gustav Heldt, translator of The Kojiki: An Account of Ancient Matters
Torquil Duthie is professor of Japanese literature at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of Man’yōshū and the Imperial Imagination in Early Japan (2014).
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| ISBN 13 | 9780231207638 |
| ISBN 10 | 0231207638 |
| Title | The Kokinshu |
| Author | Torquil Duthie |
| Series | Translations From The Asian Classics |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Columbia University Press |
| Year published | 2023-05-23 |
| Number of pages | 432 |
| Prizes | Winner of Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Prize for the Translation of Japanese Literature, Donald Keene Center of Japanese Culture 2023-2024 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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