Way of Shikishima: Waka Theory and Practice in Early Modern Japan by Roger K. Thomas

Way of Shikishima: Waka Theory and Practice in Early Modern Japan

Roger K. Thomas

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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 letter...

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