...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...

...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...

...Daud Ali A Poem at the Right Moment: Remembered Verses from Premodern South India . Collected and translated by Velcheru Narayana Rao and David Shulman . Voices from South Asia Series, No. 10. Berkeley : University of California , 1998 . xiii, 211 pp. $45.00 (cloth); $16.95 (paper...

...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...

...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...

...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...

... 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. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1974 1974 1 The poem was read and discussed...

...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...

... 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...

...Elmira Köchümkulova The Memorial Feast for Kökötöy Khan: A Kirghiz Epic Poem in the Manas Tradition . Composed in oral performance by Saghïmbay Orozbaq Uulu . Translated by Daniel Prior . London : Penguin Books , 2022 . xxxix, 353 pp. ISBN: 9780241544211 . © 2024 Association...

...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...

... 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...

...Edward C. Dimock, Jr. BOOK REVIEWS 103 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. Humayun Kabir, poet, educator, philoso^ pher, novelist, critic, and Minister of Cultural Affairs...

...Achilles Fang One Hundred Poems from the Chinese . By Kenneth Rexroth . New York : New Directions , 1956 . xiii, 160 . $3.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1958 1958 BOOK REVIEWS 627 ceeding parts of her study. While Miss Li's other pieces, enjambment...

...Earl Miner An Introduction to Haiku: An Anthology of Poems and Translations from Bashō to Shiki . By Harold G. Henderson . New York : Doubleday , 1958 . Boards: xii, 179 . $4.50. Paper: x, 190. $1.25. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1959 1959 1 My page...

...Charles E. Hamilton One Hundred Poems from the Japanese . By Kenneth Rexroth . New York : New Directions , 1955 . xxi , 143. Bibliography. $3.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1956 1956 BOOK REVIEWS 425 here a summary analysis of the specifically "Japanese...

... with some of its most interesting results, achieved by one of its acknowledged masters. A final word of thanks is due the Harvard-Yenching Institute for helping to make this publication possible. Stanford University DAVID S. NlVISON Inside the Moon Gate: Poems Translated from the Chinese. By DAVID WlLLARD...

...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...

...Kenneth K. Yasuda Spring and Asura: Poems of Kenji Miyazawa . Translated by Hiroaki Sato with an Introduction by Burton Watson . Chicago : Chicago Review Press , 1973 . xiii, 104 pp. $6.50 (cloth), $3.50 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1975 1975 BOOK...

...Kenneth Kraft Zen Poems of the Five Mountains . By David Pollack . New York : The Crossroad Publishing Company and Decatur, Ga.: Scholars Press , 1985 . (American Academy of Religion Studies in Religion 37.) Illustrations, Notes, Biographies of the Poets, Index of Poems, viii, 167 pp...