Man'yōshū, Book 20: A New English Translation Containing the Original Text, Kana Transliteration, Romanization, Glossing and Commentary PDF
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MAN’Y SH ō ū BOOK 20 MAN’Y SH Ō Ū BOOK 20 A NEW ENGLISH TRANSLATION CONTAINING THE ORIGINAL TEXT, KANA TRANSLITERATION, ROMANIZATION, GLOSSING AND COMMENTARY by Alexander Vovin UNIVERSITY OF HAWAI’I AT MANOA GLOBAL ORIENTAL MAN’Y SH : BOOK 20 Ō Ū Translated by Alexander Vovin Printed on acid-free paper by CPI Antony Rowe, Chippenham, Wilts Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data Man’yoshu. English & Japanese. Selections. Man’yoshu, book 20 : a New English Translation Containing the Original Text, Kana Transliteration, Romanization, Glossing and Commentary / by Alexander Vovin, University of Hawai’i at Manoa. pages cm Includes bibliographical references (p. ). English and Japanese. ISBN 978-90-04-26198-3 (hardback : alk. paper) 1. Man’yoshu—Criticism and interpretation. 2. Japanese poetry—To 794—Translations into English. I. Vovin, Alexander. II. Title. PL758.15.A6 2013 895.6’11—dc23 2013032762 © 2014 Alexander Vovin ISBN: 978-90-04-26198-3 E-ISBN:978-90-04-26199-0 Published 2014 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands Koninklijke Brill NV comprises the imprints Brill, Global Oriental, Hotei Publishing, IDC Publishers and Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, translated, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without prior written permission from the publisher. Authorization to photocopy items for internal or personal use is granted by Koninklijke Brill NV provided that the appropriate fees are paid directly to The Copyright Clearance Center, 222 Rosewood Drive, Suite 910, Danvers, MA 01923, USA. Fees are subject to change To Ross King without whose help almost a quarter of a century ago this book, as well as most other works of mine would never materialize CONTENTS List of charts ix Acknowledgements xi Abbreviations xiii Preface xvii Introduction 1 Man’yo¯shu¯ –Book 20 23 Bibliography 310 LIST OF CHARTS Chart 1: Sakîmôripoems by provinces with numbers and dates 2 Chart 2: Poetic sequences in book twenty 3–5 Chart 3: Distribution of EOJ verbal attributive suffix -ô 9 Chart 4: WOJ vs. EOJ differences in Eastern poems 17 Chart 5: Man’yogana phonographic signs used in the ̄ Man’yoshu 18–21 ̄ ̄
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