{"product_id":"ten-thousand-leaves","title":"Ten Thousand Leaves","description":"\u003cb\u003eA sweeping anthology of classical Japanese poetry, including poems about love, war, trees and mountains, everyday life, and so much more. One of the most important works of Japanese literature of all time, available here in an accessible translation.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 1982 American Book Award for Translation\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe first and greatest anthology of classical Japanese poetry, the \u003ci\u003eMan''yoshu \u003c\/i\u003eis considered, along with \u003ci\u003eThe Tale of Genji\u003c\/i\u003e, to be one the most important works in classical Japanese literature. In Japanese the title means “Anthology of Ten Thousand Leaves,” the “anthology of anthologies” from the first flowering of an artistic and literary sensibility in Japan during the Asuka and Nara periods—the seventh and eighth centuries. Exhibiting an astonishing variety, the poems range from the grand animistic rhetoric of the laments for the imperial family to the stark and curiously modern “Dialogue of the Destitute,” from the elegant banquet verse of aristocrats to the “poems of the frontier guardsmen.” As its name suggests, \u003ci\u003eThe Ten Thousand Leaves\u003c\/i\u003e represents a culling of what was considered the best from an epoch of cultural and literary innovation perhaps unparalleled in Japanese history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis edition incorporates books one through five of the twenty that make up the original \u003ci\u003eMan''yoshu\u003c\/i\u003e and includes an introduction by the translator, Ian Hideo Levy, that provides a general historical and cultural background for this monumental work.","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57395487113598,"sku":"NW9781681378909","price":17.85,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781681378909.jpg?v=1778624411","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/ten-thousand-leaves","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}