The Ten Thousand Leaves
Poems from the Man'yoshu
$54.57
- Paperback
432 pages
- Release Date
22 July 2025
Summary
A sweeping anthology of classical Japanese poetry, including poems about love, war, trees and mountains, everyday life, and so much more. One of the most important works of Japanese literature of all time, available here in an accessible translation.
The first and greatest anthology of classical Japanese poetry, the Man’yoshu is considered, along with The Tale of Genji, to be one of the most important works in classical Japanese literature. The title means “anthology of ten thousand l…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781681378909 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1681378906 |
| Author: | Ian Hideo Levy |
| Publisher: | New York Review Books |
| Imprint: | NYRB Poets |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 432 |
| Release Date: | 22 July 2025 |
| Weight: | 558g |
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Critics Review
“Levy’s translation of the Man’yōshū makes available to us, on our own terms, as it were, one of the glories of Japanese poetry. His work is so well done, so right, so lacking in anything approaching affectation on the one hand or pedantry on the other that we will find the translation definitive.” —Donald Richie, The Japan Times
“The Ten Thousand Leaves is complete in ways none of the previous English attempts were…. [Levy] succeeds in transplanting the feeling and tone of the original into simple yet eloquent English. His talents combine the imaginative vitality of Pound’s most effective translations with the scholarly care and precision of the best contemporary Japanese literary studies.” —Thomas Blenman Hare, Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies
Ian Hideo Levy
Ian Hideo Levy is an American-born Japanese-language author who became the first foreigner to win the Noma Literary Prize in 1992. He was awarded the 2007 Japan Foundation Special Prize for introducing Japanese literature to a foreign audience and the Yomiuri Prize for Literature in 2017. He lives in Japan.
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