| Pictures of the Heart: The Hyakunin Isshu in Word and Image Subjects: Ogura hyakunin isshu; Waka -- History and criticism; Japanese poetry -- To 1600 -- History and criticism; Waka -- Translations into English; Japanese poetry -- To 1600 -- Translations into English; Waka -- Illustrations; Japanese poetry -- To 1600 -- Illu; "This book provides, for the first time in English, the kind of information that allows an accurate appreciation of the meanings and quality of Japanese poems.... Mostow's reception-oriented approach in this poem-by-poem discussion inspires an excellent essay on the history of English translations of this collection." --Choice Mostow Joshua S. : Joshua S. Mostow is professor in the Department of Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. |