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WALEY, ARTHUR, tr. Japanese poetry, the Uta. *$3.25 Oxford 895
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“The poems here translated are from the Manyo Shu anthology (Ten-thousand leaves collection), compiled by Otomo no Yakamochi, who died in 785, and are considered as the beginnings of Japanese poetry as an art. ‘The translations in this book,’ says Mr Waley, ‘are chiefly intended to facilitate the study of the Japanese text; for Japanese poetry can only be rightly enjoyed in the original. The original texts of the poems accompany the translations, and notes on grammar are given to facilitate the student who wishes to master the originals.”—Boston Transcript
“Mr Waley comes not halfway, but all the way to meet an intelligent ignorance. He is instructive without severity; he is learned, but affable. His translations have, we think, every indispensable quality of good literal translation—especially a kind of negative rhythmical and tone value, and distinction of vocabulary without a trace of preciousness or squeamishness.” F. W. S.