One hundred poets, one poem each
Subtitle: a treasury of classical Japanese verse
By: translated with a commentary by Peter MacMillan
Edition: Revised edition.
Series: Penguin classics; Penguin classics
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780141395937
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Waka; Translations into English; Japanese poetry
Other titles: Ogura hyakunin isshu.
Description: "The best-loved and most widely read of all Japanese poetry collections, the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu contains 100 short poems on nature, the seasons, travel, and, above all, love. Dating back to the seventh century, these elegant, precisely observed waka poems (the precursor of haiku) express deep emotion through visual images based on a penetrating observation of the natural world. .."--Publisher description.
Notes: Previously published in 2008 by Columbia University Press, USA.

Includes romanized transliteration of the poems.

Includes bibliographical references.

Translations from the Japanese; appendix contains Japanese versions of poems; Roman