Vol. 3June 2026
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ENG

Selected Poems of the Manyoshu

万葉秀歌

斎藤茂吉 · Japanese

Saito Mokichi selects roughly one in ten of the four thousand short poems in Japan's oldest anthology, opening the Manyoshu to general readers.

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Saito Mokichi selects roughly one in ten of the four thousand short poems in Japan's oldest anthology, opening the Manyoshu to general readers. A landmark of modern Japanese tanka scholarship.

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