1000 Poems from the Manyoshu The Complete Nippon Gakujutsu Shinkokai Translation

Although often translated as "Collection of Myriad Leaves," the name Manyoshu is better interpreted as "Collection for a Myriad Ages." Dating from the eighth century and earlier, the Manyoshu constitutes the first collection of Japanese poetry in a form of literature as close as we can get to a native Japanese literary tradition. The anthology's pervading spirit is genuine simplicity and sincerity, and its verses offer glimpses of a culture unaffected by modernization and outside contact-a world authentically and uniquely Japanese.Nihon Gakujutsu Shinkokai, Japanese Classics Translation Committee Staff is the author of '1000 Poems from the Manyoshu The Complete Nippon Gakujutsu Shinkokai Translation', published 2005 under ISBN 9780486439594 and ISBN 0486439593.