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Hyakunin shu: Reading the Hundred Poets in Late Edo Japan
0824895681 pdf Hyakuninshu: Reading the Hundred Poets in Late Edo Japan explores the popular literary literacy of the Japanese at the edge of modernity. By reproducing and translating a well-known annotated and illustrated Ansei-era (18541859) edition of the Hyakunin isshufor hundreds of years the most basic and best-known waka primer in the entire Japanese literary canonJoshua Mostow reveals how commoners of the time made sense of the collection. Thanks to the popularization of the poems in the early modern period and the advent of commercial publishing, the Hyakuninshu (as it was commonly called) was no longer the exclusive intellectual property of the upper classes but part of a poetic heritage shared by all literate Japanese. Mostow traces the Read more