Yamato Monogatari (大和物語). Series: Written Monuments of the Orient (Pamyatniki pis'mennosti Vostoka), vol. LXX, 1982. In Russian

Ямато-Моногатари / перевод с японского, исследование и комментарий Л.М. Ермаковой. Серия: Памятники письменности Востока, LXX.
Москва : Наука, Главная редакция восточной литературы, 1982. 232 с. Обычный формат.
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Yamato Monogatari (大和物語) / translated from the Japanese, with research and commentary by L. M. Ermakova. Series: Written Monuments of the Orient (Pamyatniki pis'mennosti Vostoka), vol. LXX.
Moscow : Nauka, Glavnaya Redaktsiya Vostochnoy Literatury (Main Editorial Board for Oriental Literature), 1982. 232 pp. Standard format.
Paper wrappers. Print run of 20,000 copies.
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The Yamato Monogatari (大和物語, "Tales of Yamato") is one of the major monuments of the classical Japanese narrative tradition, a mid-Heian prose anthology composed around the mid-tenth century and consisting of 173 episodes centred on waka poems embedded in narrative prose - a form characteristic of the uta monogatari, or poem-tale genre. The genre represents the transition between the purely lyrical tradition of the imperial waka anthologies and the extended prose fiction of the Genji Monogatari tradition. The present volume is the first complete translation of the Yamato Monogatari into Russian, made by Lyudmila Mikhailovna Ermakova, one of the leading Soviet and post-Soviet specialists in Japanese classical literature and the mythology and ritual poetry of early Japan, author of foundational works on Man'yoshu poetics and archaic Japanese literature. The volume is preceded by an extended scholarly introduction examining the dating of the text, its textual tradition, and the structural relationship between verse and prose in this genre, and is supplemented by commentaries. The volume appears as number LXX in the prestigious series "Written Monuments of the Orient" (Pamyatniki pis'mennosti Vostoka), the principal Soviet and Russian critical-edition series for primary sources in oriental literatures. The series is considered one of the most authoritative source publication ventures in world orientalist scholarship. Of interest to collectors of Japanese studies, East Asian literature, Soviet orientalism, and the ППВ series.