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A prize-winning translation of the most widely known and popular collection of Japanese poetry Hyakunin Isshu is the most famous and popular collection of Japanese poetry, and the first work of Japanese literature ever to be translated into English. Compiled in the fourteenth... Read Full Overview

The Hyakunin Isshu is a poetry anthology beloved by generations of Japanese since it was compiled in the 13th century. Many Japanese know the poems by heart as a result of playing the popular card game version of the anthology, called karuta. Collecting one poem... Read Full Overview

Discover this classic translation of one of Japan's most famous poetry anthologies.

Compiled in the 12th century, the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu is one of Japan's most quoted and illustrated works. The text is an anthology of 100 waka poems, each written by a different poet from the 7th century to the middle of the 12th century.

Compiled in the 12th century, the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu is one of Japan's most quoted and illustrated works. The text is an anthology of 100 waka poems, each written by a different poet from the 7th century to the middle of the 12th century.

The Hyakunin Isshu is a poetry anthology beloved by generations of Japanese since it was compiled in the 13th century. Many Japanese know the poems by heart as a result of playing the popular card game version of the anthology. Collecting one poem each from one hundred poets... Read Full Overview

This book is a translation of an immensely popular and widely studied anthology of poems, one each from one hundred Japanese masters, probably collected by Fujiwara no Sadaie (1162-1241), a high court official who was tutor to the Imperial Japanese family.

THE Hyaku-nin-isshiu, or 'Single Verses by a Hundred People', were collected together in A.D. 1235 by Sadaiye Fujiwara, who included as his own contribution verse No. 97. They are placed in approximately chronological order, and range from about the year 670 to the year of compilation... Read Full Overview

The Hyakunin Isshu, or One Hundred Poets, One Poem Each collection, is a sequence of one hundred Japanese poems in the tanka form, selected by the famous poet and scholar Fujiwara no Teika (1162-1241) and arranged, in part, to represent the history of Japanese poetry... Read Full Overview

""A Hundred Verses from Old Japan"" is a book that was first published in 1909 and is a translation of the Hyaku-Nin-Isshu, a collection of one hundred Japanese poems from the Heian period (794-1185). The book is translated by William Ninnis Porter and features an introduction... Read Full Overview

A hundred voices from old Japan. Timeless, spare, piercingly human verse. A Hundred Verses From Old Japan gathers Fujiwara Sadaie's Hyakunin Isshu into an elegant translated poetry collection that makes traditional waka poems immediate and affecting for contemporary readers... Read Full Overview

A Hundred Verses From Old Japan is a book that was originally published in 1909 and features a translation of the Hyaku-Nin-Isshiu, which is a collection of one hundred poems from ancient Japan. The book was translated by William Ninnis Porter and includes a preface that provides... Read Full Overview

A Hundred Verses From Old Japan: Being A Translation Of The Hyaku-Nin-Isshiu is a book written by William Ninnis Porter and originally published in 1909. The book is a collection of one hundred poems from the Hyaku-Nin-Isshiu, a famous anthology of Japanese poetry from the 12th... Read Full Overview