Japanese Love Lyric

For the first time in many years, readers are presented with the world of classical Japanese love lyric poetry in translations by Anna Evgenievna Gluskina — one of the most important Soviet Japanologists, who personally compiled this anthology in the... late 1980s. The book includes poems from the 8th, 10th, and 13th centuries, carefully selected from the three best Japanese poetic anthologies, as well as commented on by the translator. The delicate Japanese lyric continues to amaze readers with its artistry and conciseness after hundreds of years, while the carefully executed translation conveys all the nuances of classical Japanese verse in the Russian language.