Waka and Things, Waka as Things(English, Hardcover, Kamens Edward)

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Waka and Things, Waka as Things(English, Hardcover, Kamens Edward) is written by Kamens Edward and published by Yale University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0300223714 (ISBN 10) and 9780300223712 (ISBN 13).

A challenging study offering a new perspective on classical Japanese poems and how they interact with and are part of material culture This generously illustrated volume offers a fresh perspective on classical Japanese poetry (waka), including many poems treated here for the first time in a Western-language publication. Edward Kamens examines these poems both as they relate to material things and as things in and of themselves, exploring their intimate connections to artifacts and works of visual art, sacred and secular alike, and investigating the unique rhetorical messages and powers accessed and activated through these multimedia productions. This book makes a major contribution to Japanese literary and cultural studies.