Excerpt from The Master-Singers of Japan: Being Verse Translations From the Japanese Poets Japanese poetry is wanting in narrative poems; even ballads are few and far between; political and (strange to say in so soldierly a race) war songs are mostly absent. Emotional poems and those dealing with the various aspects of nature form the majority, and except for the Wasau or Buddhist hymns, there are few of an exclusively religious character. The Nara period - eighth century-was the Golden Age of Japanese Poetry. Among the ...
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Excerpt from The Master-Singers of Japan: Being Verse Translations From the Japanese Poets Japanese poetry is wanting in narrative poems; even ballads are few and far between; political and (strange to say in so soldierly a race) war songs are mostly absent. Emotional poems and those dealing with the various aspects of nature form the majority, and except for the Wasau or Buddhist hymns, there are few of an exclusively religious character. The Nara period - eighth century-was the Golden Age of Japanese Poetry. Among the higher classes, the. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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