Hitomaro and the Birth of Japanese Lyricism by Ian Hideo Levy

Hitomaro and the Birth of Japanese Lyricism

Ian Hideo Levy

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Professor Levy explores the ritual origins of Japanese verse, the impact of Chinese and Korean literary influence on the seventh-century Court, and the rhetorical deification of the imperial family as the condition under which Hitomaro would begin...

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