Published 2012-06-01
“…Although almost nothing is known about the historical author and we can be confident that the different accounts of her life are fictional in nature, the subsequent translators and commentaries of her work cannot discard this imaginary tale, since it helps to clarify the ambiguities inherent in Komachi’s rethorically complex writing, which makes extensive use of pivot-words and associative techniques.This article focuses mainly on the Estonian translations of the poem number 113 in the Kokinshū (
Collection of Early and Modern Japanese
Poetry, 905) and discusses the possibilities inherent in the original text, based on the modern edition of the anthology. …”
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