This is an account of classical Japanese poetics based on the two concepts of emptiness (ku) and temporality (mujo) that ground the medieval practice and unders

This is an account of classical Japanese poetics based on the two concepts of emptiness (ku) and temporality (mujo) that ground the medieval practice and unders

Japanese historian Louis Perez brings Mikiso Hane's rich and beloved account of early Japanese history up-to-date in this thoroughly revised Second Edition of P

The Shinkokinshū: A New Collection of Poems Ancient and Modern (ca. 1205) is supreme among the twenty-one anthologies of court poetry ordered by the Japanese e

This book presents the essential facts of modern Japanese history. It covers a variety of important developments through the 1990s, giving special consideration