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  2. Japanese poetry - Wikipedia

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    Edition of the Kokin Wakashū anthology of classic Japanese poetry with wood-carved cover, 18th century. Japanese poetry is poetry typical of Japan, or written, spoken, or chanted in the Japanese language, which includes Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese, and Modern Japanese, as well as poetry in Japan which was written in the Chinese language or ryūka from the Okinawa ...

  3. Man'yōshū - Wikipedia

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    A replica of a Man'yōshū poem No. 8, by Nukata no Ōkimi. The Man'yōshū (万葉集, pronounced [maɰ̃joꜜːɕɯː]; literally "Collection of Ten Thousand Leaves") [a] [1] is the oldest extant collection of Japanese waka (poetry in Classical Japanese), [b] compiled sometime after AD 759 during the Nara period. The anthology is one of the ...

  4. Ogura Hyakunin Isshu - Wikipedia

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    Ogura shikishi by Teika. Hyakunin Isshu (百人一首) is a classical Japanese anthology of one hundred Japanese waka by one hundred poets. Hyakunin isshu can be translated to "one hundred people, one poem [each]"; it can also refer to the card game of uta-garuta, which uses a deck composed of cards based on the Hyakunin Isshu .

  5. The Garden of Words - Wikipedia

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    Yukari in The Garden of Words from Man'yōshū, Book 11, verse 2,513 Following summer break, Takao returns to school and spots Yukari, discovering that she is a literature teacher and had been the target of gossip and bullying. To avoid further confrontation, Yukari opted to avoid work and retreat to the park, hoping she would learn to overcome her fears. However, she quits her job and leaves ...

  6. Waka (poetry) - Wikipedia

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    Waka. (poetry) The Kokin Wakashū is an early ( c. 900) anthology of waka poetry which fixed the form of Japanese poetry. [ 1] Waka (和歌, "Japanese poem") is a type of poetry in classical Japanese literature. Although waka in modern Japanese is written as 和歌, in the past it was also written as 倭歌 (see Wa, an old name for Japan), and ...

  7. Trope (literature) - Wikipedia

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    t. e. A literary trope is the use of figurative language, via word, phrase or an image, for artistic effect such as using a figure of speech. [ 1] Keith and Lundburg describe a trope as "a substitution of a word or phrase by a less literal word or phrase". [ 2] The word trope has also undergone a semantic change and now also describes commonly ...

  8. The Oxford Book of English Verse - Wikipedia

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    The Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250–1900 is an anthology of English poetry, edited by Arthur Quiller-Couch, that had a very substantial influence on popular taste and perception of poetry for at least a generation. It was published by Oxford University Press in 1900; in its india-paper form it was carried widely around the British Empire ...

  9. The Biggest Differences Between Netflix's 'One Piece ... - AOL

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    Here, what you need to know about the difference between the live-action version of One Piece as compared to the manga and anime series. Netflix/Cartoon Network 1.