...Robert H. Brower Minase Sangin Hyakuin: A Poem of One Hundred Links Composed by Three Poets at Minase . Translated by Kenneth Yasuda . Tokyo : Kogakusha , 1956 . xi, 72 . Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1958 1958 1 See Keene Donald...

...Susan Downing Videen Tales of Yamato: A Tenth-Century Poem-Tale . Translated by Mildred M. Tahara . Honolulu : The University Press of Hawaii , 1980 . xvi, 318 pp. Appendixes. $15. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1982 1982 BOOK REVIEWS JAPAN 605 Shinto (end...

... will awake no more the thick pain of awakening incessantlythe constant burden he will bear no moreinto unprecedented darkness as if beside his window a few silences were come like a camels neck. VOL. XXXIII, No. 4 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES AUGUST 1974 The Poet as Mouse and Owl: Reflections on a Poem...

...Robert E. Morrell Fujiwara Teika's Hundred-Poem Sequence of the Shōji Era , 1200: A Complete Translation, with Introduction and Commentary . By Robert H. Brower . Tokyo : Sophia University ( Monumenta Nipponica Monograph No. 55), 1978 . 120 pp. Illustrations, Footnotes, Appendix, Works...

...Joseph Errington Kunjarakarna Dharmakathana. Liberation Through the Law of the Buddha: An Old Javanese Poem by Mpu Dusun . Edited and translated by A. Teeuw and S. O. Robson . With a contribution on the reliefs of Candi Jago by A. J. Bernet Kempers . The Hague : Martinus Nijhoff , 1981...

...David Tod Roy Li Sao. A Third Century B.C. Poem by Chʻü Yüan . Translated by Jerah Johnson . Miami : Olivant Press , 1959 . Olivant Quarterly No. 4. iv , 74 . Introduction, Notes. $4.00 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1960 1960 BOOK REVIEWS 103 might...

... this skilled writer. JOYCE P. JACOBSEN Wesleyan University A Poem at the Right Moment: Remembered Verses from Premodern South India. Collected and translated by VELCHERU N A R A Y A N A R A O and D A V I D SHULMAN. Voices from South Asia Series, No. 10. Berkeley: University of California, 1998. xiii, 211 pp...

... historiography of the ancient Chinese northeast. A ninth century BCE poem called “Hanyi” in the Classic of Poetry [Shijing] has been the cause of a far older history dispute. Whereas Chinese scholars have generally understood Han as a Zhou feudal state ruled by a Ji-surnamed scion of the Zhou Dynasty (1045–256...

...Alex Wayman The Book of Zambasta: A Khotanese Poem on Buddhism . Edited and Translated by R. E. Emmerick . London : Oxford University Press , 1968 , xxii, 455 pp. Appendixes, $20.75. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1969 1969 BOOK REVIEWS 151 estimates for China...

... the whole project. The intimate home-movie quality of the recordings reveals the poets and their poems better than the introductory textual expositions. The forceful musical rendition of Kim Hyung-Young's “Between Heaven and Earth” by Moon Hyun, Hong Suk-Bok, and Kim Sung-tae provides a powerful...

...Richard S. Kennedy Poems of Love and War: From the Eight Anthologies and the Ten Long Poems of Classical Tamil . Selected and translated by A. K. Ramanujan . New York : Columbia University Press , 1985 . xviii, 337 pp. Afterword, Notes, Appendix, References, Index of Poets, Index...

...Robert Ashmore Critics and Commentators: The Book of Poems as Classic and Literature . By Bruce Rusk . Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center , 2012 . xv, 282 pp. $39.95 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2013  2013 The pervasive influence...

.... Apparently he does not know One Hundred Poems from the Chinese. By KENNETH REXROTH. New York: New Directions, 1956. xiii, 160. $3.50. that Kung-ch'in was Chou Yii's tzu. Another random example is the lines "It is better/ To encourage my frivolity,/ And get drunk with the aroma/ Of my wine cup./1 refuse...

.... The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy GEORGE O. TOTTEN One Hundred Poems from the Japanese. By KENNETH REXBOTH. New York: New Directions, 1955. xxi, 143. Bibliography. $3.50. The continuing popularity of Japanese poetry in translation is hard to understand, since mostly it tends to be dreadful...

...C. N. Tay Abstract The Great Shun once said, “Poetry bespeaks the emotion.” As Ezra Pound puts it, “Poetry is a verbal statement of emotional values; a poem is an emotional value verbally stated.” From the earliest anonymous composer to Mao Tse-tung, we observe in the outpourings of the poet's...

...Edward H. Hume Inside the Moon Gate: Poems Translated from the Chinese . By David Willard Lyon , with a foreword by Ch'en Shou Yi. Claremont : The Saunders Press , 1951 . 63 . $1.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1952 1952 480 THE FAR EASTERN QUARTERLY cation...

...Edward C. Dimock, Jr. Green and Gold, Stories and Poems from Bengal . Edited by Humayun Kabir . New York : New Directions , 1958 . xi, 288 . Notes on Authors. Glossary. $4.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1959 1959 BOOK REVIEWS 103 Green and Gold, Stories...

...Susan Andrews 2 If the poem cycle “Songs of Mount Wutai” is, as Cartelli points out, distinct from the other Mount Wutai poems from Dunhuang insofar as it mentions Mañjuśrī and no other divine beings, temples, or monks familiar in these materials, for instance, what does this suggest about...

...Clayton Chow The Poems of Li Ho 791–817 . By J. D. Frodsham . New York : Oxford University Press , 1970 . Ixiv, 283 pp. Appendix I, Appendix II, Select Bibliography, Index. $9.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1971 1971 BOOK REVIEWS 431 be the criterion...

...David Shulman Poets of the Tamil Anthologies: Ancient Poems of Love and War . By George L. Hart , III. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press , 1979 . vii, 212 pp. Further Reading. $16.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1980 1980 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA...