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You will enjoy this book if you love early poetry, old legends, court life, the stage, or the sound of a language in its youth, and like to read verse with a guide.
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Picture a girl found inside a glowing stalk of bamboo. In three months she grows into a woman, and five noblemen set out to win her with gifts that cannot be had. That is one of four works gathered in this volume of early Japanese writing.
The largest is the Manyoshu, the oldest anthology of Japanese verse, compiled around 760. Next come the Taketori Monogatari, the preface Ki no Tsurayuki wrote around 922, and the Noh play Takasago. F. Victor Dickins adds a short grammar and notes, and you learn first how the old language sounds.
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- 1Four texts show Japan finding its voiceFree
- 2Old Japanese is built from simple open syllables
- 3Chinese characters carried the poems before kana existed
- 4Palaces and mountains are praised as living things
- 5Partings and lost wives give the book its warmth
- 6Hardship and loyalty sit beside court splendor
- 7Legends and travelers fill the roads of the anthology
- 8A sick governor and a lost hawk bring the later books alive
- 9The bamboo cutter's daughter tests five suitors
- 10A poet's manifesto and a play about paired pines
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Four texts show Japan finding its voice
This volume gathers four works that mark stages in the growth of Japanese writing. The Manyoshu comes first, an anthology compiled around 760. Its long lays are often followed by short envoys that add a closing thought or a change of mood.
The second work is the Taketori Monogatari, the story of the old bamboo cutter. The third is the preface Ki no Tsurayuki wrote around 922 for the Kokinwakashu, a collection of Japanese verse old and new. The fourth is Takasago, perhaps the earliest of the medieval miracle plays known as Noh.
Yet they share a question: how do people put feeling into words?
This volume is a walk through the first rooms of a very large house, where song gives way to story and story to the stage.
That’s 1 of 10 key points.
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- LengthAbout 113,200 words
- Reading timeAbout 7 h 55 min
Questions about Testi giapponesi antichi e medievali
What is the Manyoshu?
It is the earliest Japanese anthology of verse, compiled around 760. It holds poems by emperors, courtiers, soldiers and ordinary people, with love, grief, travel, legend and praise of the land.
What are pillow words in these poems?
Pillow words, or makura kotoba, are fixed epithets placed before certain words, such as a name or a season. They decorate the line, often through sound or wordplay, and can be set aside to find the core.
Who is Kaguyahime in the Taketori Monogatari?
She is a girl found inside a glowing bamboo stalk by an old bamboo cutter. She grows quickly into a woman of great beauty, and five noblemen try to win her by fetching rare treasures.
What is the main message of the Kokinwakashu preface?
Tsurayuki argues that poetry grows from the human heart and stirs everything around it. People of every rank have always put feeling into verse, and the form deserves honor.
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Primitive & Mediaeval Japanese Texts. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/primitive-mediaeval-japanese-texts.
Primitive & mediaeval Japanese texts. (2026). Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/primitive-mediaeval-japanese-texts
Primitive & Mediaeval Japanese Texts. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/primitive-mediaeval-japanese-texts.
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