...Steven D. Carter The Making of Shinkokinshū . By Robert N. Huey . Harvard East Asian Monographs, no. 208. Cambridge : Harvard University Asian Center , 2002 . xx , 480 pp. $49.50 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2003 2003 BOOK REVIEWS JAPAN 615 edge...

... in Kokka taikan [ Compendium of Japanese Classical Poetry ] (6th ed., Tokyo, 1925, 2 vols.). The name of the anthology or other source is first given, followed by the number of the poem in sequence within the anthology. The present poem is Shinkokinshū 59, the Shinkokinshū being the 8th Imperial...

... history. CAROLA HEIN Bryn Matur College The Making of Shinkokinshu. By ROBERT N . H U E Y . Harvard East Asian Monographs, no. 208. Cambridge: Harvard University Asian Center, 2002. xx, 480 pp. $49.50 (cloth). For several centuries after its appearance in the early thirteenth century, the Shinkokinshu...

... in its entirety and carefully introduced to readers who.may not be acquainted with Professor Brower's earlier work on the Age of the Shinkokinshu. As "Fujiwara Teika's Hundred-Poem Sequence of the Shoji Era" (parts one and two), the introductory essay first appeared in Monumenta Nipponica, 31:3 (Autumn...

...), an imperial princess and one of the major poets represented in the Shinkokinshu (1205). Hiroaki Sato provides a thoughtprovoking introduction to various aspects of Shikishi's life and poetry, including a 1264 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES balanced discussion of the rumored love between Shikishi and Teika...

... of seven chapters framed by a short introduction and yet shorter conclusion. The chapters approach the problem of writing in (1) Kojiki, (2) The Tale of Genji, (3) the aesthetics of Shinkokinshu, (4) the poetry and incidental writings of several Gozan monks, (5) the renga theory of Gido Shushin and Nijo...

... of the Shinkokinshu. As "Fujiwara Teika's Hundred-Poem Sequence of the Shoji Era" (parts one and two), the introductory essay first appeared in Monumenta Nipponica, 31:3 (Autumn 1976), followed by the annotated translations in the following issue, MN, 31:4 (Winter 1976). Texts of the book and the two-part article...

... Poets ofJapan's Late Medieval Age. By STEVEN D. CARTER. New York: Columbia University Press, 1989. xxvii, 345 pp. $32.50. If our goal is to fill in gaps in the canon of English translations of classical Japanese literature, there is, with the exception of Shinkokinshu, no more obvious ...

... in vain, for the imperial anthologies after Shinkokinshu (compiled c. 1205) do not appear in the standard compendia of classical Japanese literature. They have been expunged from the canon. As a result, we are apt to overlook one of the last great innovators in the waka tradition, Kyogoku Tamekane (1254...

... that some of their poems might be selected for an imperially sponsored anthology, the presumed guarantee of literary immortality. Alas, their struggles were largely in vain, for the imperial anthologies after Shinkokinshu (compiled c. 1205) do not appear in the standard compendia of classical Japanese...

... princess and one of the major poets represented in the Shinkokinshu (1205). Hiroaki Sato provides a thoughtprovoking introduction to various aspects of Shikishi's life and poetry, including a Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1994 1994 Literary Patronage in Late Medieval Japan...

... of Shinkokinshu, no more obvious BOOK REVIEWS JAPAN 649 area in need of attention than mid-Kamakura/Muromachi waka. Earlier anthologies present nothing or little from the period, and this in spite of the fact that almost thirty years ago Brower and Miner (Japanese Court Poetry, 1961) depicted much of the period...

...] HOWLAND, Translating the West: Language and Political Reason in Nineteenth-CenturyJapan [MARK LINCICOME] H U E Y , The Making of Shinkokinshu [STEVEN D. C A R T E R ] I Z U H A R A , Family Change and Housing in Post-WarJapanese Society: The Experiences of Older Women [JOHN w . TRAPHAGAN] JAFFE, Neither...

...). 34 Shinkokinshū [New Collection of Poems Ancient and Modern], Chapter 1. 33 Man'yōshū [Anthology of a Myriad Leaves], Chapter 7, poem 1088. For excellent studies of this Kara-period anthology with translations, see Shinkōkai Nippon Gakujutsu (ed.), The Manyōshū ( Tokyo...