Description
This monograph deals with the unique rhetorical devices of Japanese waka poetry through an exhaustive analysis of the first and most important of the Japanese imperial anthologies, the Kokinshu (compiled 905 AD). The chapters are organized around the poetic devices, including kakekotoba (conventionalized puns, usually translated as ‘pivot words’), makurakotoba (set phrases or epigraphs, usually translated as ‘pillow words’), joshi (introductory phrases of varied length), and utamakura (famous places names, literally ‘poem pillows’). The analysis presented here uses a new kind of descriptive model which defines and classifies these rhetorical devices as structural elements in the poetry. Because the approach is exhaustive, a romanized index to the Kokinshû is included as an appendix. Other Japan & Japanese Studies Books 2024 – Fictional Representations of Japanese-Canadian Children in Internment During World War Two: Analysis of Five Texts (Oversized soft cover) 1993 – Japan’s Policy in Africa 2003 – Dream that Becomes Us
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