The Manyosu: Book I de Pierson, J. L. Jr - 1929

Leyden: E. J. Brill. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. No signatures. Dust-jacket with foxing, and some small tears and chips to margins. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover.; x, 238, [3] pages. Dark green cloth boards with gilt characters, letters, and rule on spine. Page dimensions: 243 x 155mm. Book One only of Pierson's series of translations of the Japanese poetry anthology, the Man'yoshu. The book presents the Japanese characters, with pronunciation in English, in short sections, followed by these sections: a translation into English; General Remarks; Grammar; Script; and Different Readings. "I intend to give a complete translation of the Man-yo-sa, not because of the charm of its sketches of ancient Japanese life and of the beautiful islands around the inland sea, but from the point of view of the linguist, and therefore in the first place the translation must be correct in order to get the original meaning as clearly as… Leer más