Light Verse from the Floating World
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: October 15, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780231115506
Subjects: Poetry anthologies: 16th to 18th centuries; Poetry anthologies: 19th century; Japanese Poetry; Japanese; Poetry; Anthologies (multiple authors); Literary Criticism & Collections / Asian; Senryu; Senryåu; Translations into English
First sentence: In eighteenth-century Japan samurai were at the top of the social hierarchy, ruling over peasants, artisans, and merchants.