{"product_id":"manyoshu-book-14-9789004233591","title":"Man’yōshū (Book 14)","description":"Book fourteen of the \u003ci\u003eMan’yōshῡ\u003c\/i\u003e (‘Anthology of Myriad Leaves’) continues Alexander Vovin’s new English translation of this 20-volume major work which was compiled between c.759 and 782 AD, making it the earliest and largest Japanese poetic anthology in existence and thus the most important compendium of Japanese culture of the Asuka and Nara periods.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook fourteen is the third volume of the \u003ci\u003eMan’yōshῡ\u003c\/i\u003e to be published to date (following books fifteen (2009) and five (2011))  and contains  230 tanka poems, together with a few significant variants, bringing  the total to 249.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis volume will be followed by publication of book twenty (2013) (instead of the previously announced book seventeen) on account of the fact that book twenty also contains many poems by Border Guards written in the same Eastern Old Japanese (EOJ) as do many of the Azuma-period  poems that are contained in book fourteen.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEach volume of this new translation contains the original text, kana transliteration, romanization, glossing and commentary.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Alexander Vovin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48269061718267,"sku":"9789004233591","price":194.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/CoreSourceHub_5ccfd7d1-808c-474f-8b3b-e9a69a137f53.jpg?v=1778022430","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/manyoshu-book-14-9789004233591","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}