The genial seed; a Japanese song cycle.
This book is a translation of a sequence of song once sung in the fields during the transplanting of rice seedlings at the end of Mary or in early June in certain areas of rural Japan. It is best read today as a single, long poem. The conditions of its performance gave unity, but there is also a var...
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| Format: | Book |
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| Language: | English Japanese |
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New York]
Grossman Publishers
[1971]
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| Edition: | [1st ed. |
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