Teika Fujiwara Robert Brower Earl (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Very good copy with brief foxing on the foredge and offesetting on the endpapers. Bears the bookplate of a noted American literary critic and theorist.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Included. Hbk 148pp lacks dj clean crisp black cloth boards now in custom acetate jacket portrait frontis and facsimiles rem on bottom foredge otherwise an unread copy excellent clean tight unmarked as new.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Thus. 148pp, index, bibliography, glossary. Black cloth in jacket. Toning to spine, a couple of tiny chips to jacket, prev owner stamp inside front cover (mostly under flap), light foxing to page edges. Complete translation of an important document of Japanese poetics: the Kindai Shuka of Fujiwara Teika (1162-1241), one of the greatest of Japanese poets and critics.The works consists of a short critical essay by Teika and a carefully arranged sequence of 83 poems by other hands. Despite the title the works draws on the previous three centuries. Prior to this edition only about a quarter of the work was available in a 1928 translation by Waley. Size: 8vo.