A complete translation, with annotations, of all the poems attributed to the 12th-century Japanese poet Princess Shikishi. The introduction places the poet in her age and society and explains some of the prosody of the 5-7-5-7-7 syllable tanka form in which she wrote. Annotation copyright Book News,
Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Hawaii Press
ISBN-10
0824814835
ISBN-13
9780824814830
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1105802
Product Key Features
Original Language
Japanese
Book Title
String of Beads : Complete Poems of Princess Shikishi