Poetical Greetings from the Far East: Japanese Poems - Florenz, Karl Adolf 1865-1939; Lloyd, Arthur 1852-1911 (Tokyo Hasegawa, 1896)
Original Japanese Poems of the Manyoshu Collection, the majority dating from the first half of the 8th century. Complete edition, selected, translated from the Japanese by Karl Florenz with a preface and notes. With colored wood engravings of Hanko, Kason, Mishima Yunosuke (Shoso) and Arai Shujiro (Yoshimune).
Printed on double leaves of crêpe paper folded in Japanese style.
English translation by Lloyd of the German Edition of 1894 by Florenz, a pioneer of German Japanology. Lloyd was a minister of the Church of England, fellow and Dean of Peterhouse, Cambridge, academic, translator, and biographer. He also served as an Anglican missionary and academic in Japan from 1884 until his death in 1911.
Ex Libris Philip Ranney Brooks (Plate)
Keywords: 19th Century (1801-1900); Poetry; Fine art; Japan