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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. Originally published in 1984. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the late

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"The first and greatest anthology of classical Japanese poetry, the Man'yoshu is considered, along with Tale of Genji, to be one of the two most important works in classical Japanese literature"--