Features 1,000 poems from the oldest Japanese poetry anthology, chosen by a scholarly committee based on their poetic excellence and their role in revealing the
The Manyoshu is the great literary work of eighth century Japan, a collection comprising work from more than four hundred writers. Its richness and nobility of
The Manyoshu, compiled during the late Nara period (the latter half of the eighth century), is both the oldest and the greatest of Japanese anthologies. ... Thi