Yaponskaya poeziya (Japanese Poetry)

Very good condition; cover shows slight soiling, fore-edge fraying and some creasing along fore-edge, owner’s signature to the upper edge of the front wrapper, closed vertical tear (about 8 cm. length) from the bottom edge of the back wrapper and back sheet. 

Current research work by Russian symbolist and modernist writer, poet, philosopher and scholar Grigory Rachinsky (1859-1939) traces the history of Japanese poetry from the ancient ritual songs until the lyric court poetry, five-line tanka and three-line haiku. Also consedered Japanese light novel monogatari and Japanese drama. The work is extensively supplemented with translations of five-line, three-line and nagauta “long-song” poems. Works by the German translators Karl Rathgen and Otto Hauser, served as sources for the current research. Rachinsky, like many others, who used to devote themselves to the research of Japanese culture at the beginning of the 20th century, tends to draw analogies with European culture in his work.

Book’s cover reproduces a color woodcut by the famous Japanese artist Hokusai (1760-1849) "Tsukuda Island in Musashi Province (from a Series "36 Views of Mount Fuji").