USC Meiji University Exchange

The Records of the Meiji University-USC Exchange

Since 2008, scholars and graduate students from Meiji University and throughout Southern California have met annually to share research on Premodern Japanese History at the University of Southern California . This is an archive of abstracts, papers, and materials presented at the exchanges.

Yamazaki Kenji: Ordering the Man'yōshu

January 15, 2017 Emily Warren

Thursday 12/5/2013, 3:00-3:45 PM, Doheny Library 233

Ordering the Man'yōshu
Prof. YAMAZAKI Kenji, Meiji University

The order of poems in the Man'yoshu is different depending on the manuscript copy of the Man'yoshu. I would like to consider the possible background and significance of this difference in order, and I will show slides of old manuscript copies of the Man'yoshu.

Presentation PDF