Traversing the Frontier: The Man'yōshū Account of a Japanese Mission to Silla in 736-737

by H. Mack Horton

In the sixth month of 736, a Japanese diplomatic mission set out for the kingdom of Silla, on the Korean peninsula. The envoys undertook the mission during a period of strained relations with the country of their destination, met with adverse winds and disease during the voyage, and returned empty-handed. The futile journey proved fruitful in one respect: its literary representation--a collection of 145 Japanese poems and their Sino-Japanese (kanbun)...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674053303
• ISBN13: 9780674053304
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 648 Pages
• Weight: 2.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 6.0" x 9.1"