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The Way of Shikishima: Waka Theory and Practice in Early Modern Japan Roger K. Thomas
The Way of Shikishima: Waka Theory and Practice in Early Modern Japan
Roger K. Thomas
Though the haiku is the best known Japanese verse form in the west, its appearance in the early modern period (1600-1868) was preceded by at least a millennium of waka poetry, whose thirty-one syllable version, tanka, had dominated Japanese letters among the aristocracy from t...
244 pages
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | December 24, 2007 |
| ISBN13 | 9780761839804 |
| Publishers | University Press of America |
| Pages | 244 |
| Dimensions | 153 × 229 × 18 mm · 367 g |
| Language | English |