String of Beads

Complete Poems of Princess Shikishi

• Author(s): Princess Shikishi (daughter of Goshirakawa, Emperor of Japan),
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Pages: 177
• ISBN_10: 0824814835
  ISBN_13: 9780824814830
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Poetry / Asian / General ,

Description:... A complete translation, with annotations, of all the poems attributed to the 12th-century Japanese poet Princess Shikishi. The introduction places the poet in her age and society and explains some of the prosody of the 5-7-5-7-7 syllable tanka form in which she wrote. Annotation copyright Book News,