Japanese Lyric History

Author: (Japanese) Kiyohiro Kanda
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Publish Date: 2000-01-01
Features: This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the development of tanka in the history of Japanese literature and collects a significant number of original works. It describes the evolutionary trajectory of tanka from the Heian period (792–1184) to the early Meiji era (1868–1912), Taisho era (1912–1926), and early Showa era (1926–1989), making it a definitive work in the study of the history of Japanese tanka.