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Fujiwara Teika (Fujiwara no Sadaie or Fujiwara no Teika (1162 –1241). – Robert H. Brower (translator):
Fujiwara Teika’s Hundred-Poem Sequence of the Shoji Era, 1200 : a complete translation, with introduction and commentary [Monumenta Nipponica monographs, 55.]. Tokyo: Sophia University, 1978. 8vo in wraps as issued. 120 (1) pages with poems in romanized Japanese, with parallel English translations. Fine clean copy
1st edition thus
Fujiwara Teika, Japanese anthologist, calligrapher, literary critic, novelist, poet, and scribe of the late Heian and early Kamakura periods. His influence was enormous, and he is counted as among the greatest of Japanese poets, and perhaps the greatest master of the waka form – an ancient poetic form consisting of five lines with a total of 31 syllable
