Written on Water: Five Hundred Poems from the Man’Yoshu
Ōtomo no Yakamochi
180 pages, Hardcover
ISBN: 0804820406
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Language: English
Publish: January 1, 1995
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The poems cover a wide range of content and expression, from court poets’ highly polished verses to anonymous poems that read like folk songs.