Frontmatter

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. Part 1. Translation
6. Mana Preface 7
7. Selected Poems from Kokinwakashū 17
8. Kana Preface 225
9. Part 2. Essays
10. 1 Poetry Before the Heian Period 239
11. 2 The Heian Court and Kana Writing 255
12. 3 The Conception and Structure of the Kokinshū 269
13. 4 Topics of Composition 282
14. 5 Prosody and Rhetorical Conventions 301
15. 6 The Kokinshū Prefaces 310
16. 7 The Kokinshū Text and Its Commentarial Tradition 339
17. 8 Translating the Kokinshū 353
18. Appendix: Poets in This Book 369
19. Bibliography and Further Reading 379
20. Index 385
21. TRANSLATIONS FROM THE ASIAN CLASSICS 409