![]() | Hitomaro and the Birth of Japanese Lyricism Subjects: Man’yōshū; Japanese poetry -- To 794 -- History and criticism; Kakmomoto Hitomaro fl. 689–700 -- Criticism and interpretation; Professor Levy explores the ritual origins of Japanese verse, the impact of Chinese and Korean literary influence on the seventh-century Court, and the rhetorical deification of the imperial family as the condition under which Hitomaro would begin his career as a Court poet. |
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