Love Songs from the Man'yoshu: Selections from a Japanese Classic Dover Publications Satisfaction

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Book Condition:Very GoodDust Jacket Grade: CFormat: HardcoverYear:  1979Publisher: Crown PublishingEdition:  Additional Condition Info: Please refer to pictures for overall condition

Spanning from the late 1940s into the 1960s

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Love Songs from the Man'yoshu: Selections from a Japanese Classic Dover Publications SatisfactionIt was the first golden age of Japanese civilization. Suddenly, in the eighth century, there appeared the great metropolis of Nara, its broad avenues lined with magnificent temples. Culture rushed in from Korea, from China, and, over the Silk Road, from as far away as Persia. And in this age Japanese literature found its first voice, a clear and powerful one, in the Man'yoshu. Literally "The Collection of the Thousand Leaves," this sweeping anthology,