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Hitomaro and the Birth of Japanese Lyricism

Hitomaro and the Birth of Japanese Lyricism

Hardcover

Series: Princeton Legacy Library, Book 734

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0691640637
ISBN13: 9780691640631
Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr
Published: Apr 19 2016
Pages: 186
Weight: 0.97
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Professor Levy explores the ritual origins of Japanese verse, the impact of Chinese and Korean literary influence on the seventh-century Court, and the rhetorical deification of the imperial family as the condition under which Hitomaro would begin his career as a Court poet.

Originally published in 1984.

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