One Hundred Poets, One Poem Each: A Translation of the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu

Peter McMillan; with a foreword by Donald Keene

March, 2008
Cloth, 240 pages, 200 illus.
ISBN: 978-0-231-14398-1
$39.50 / £23.00

"Peter McMillan's translation of the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu has restored the importance and beauty of a collection of poetry too often dismissed as merely 'pretty.' This is by far the best translation to date." — Donald Keene, Shincho Professor of Japanese Literature and University Professor Emeritus at Columbia University

"A new translation of one of Japan's most famous poetry collections." — Donald Richie, Japan Times

"[This] excellent new translation . . . reveals the vivid emotions that have kept the heart of the collection beating all this time." — Andrew Monahan, TIME, Asia Edition

Related Subjects

• Asian Literature
• East Asian Studies
• Poetry

Series

• Translations from the Asian Classics

About the Author

Peter McMillan is a professor at Kyorin University in Tokyo, Japan, where he teaches poetry, including ekphrasis (poems about art), and translation. He also writes poetry and has an art gallery specializing in contemporary Japanese art.

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