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This is the second volume to be published in the 20-volume set. It includes 114 poems (104 tanka , ten choka ), traditionally considered to be the zoka genre, although some of them can be classified as benka , since they deal with death and sorrow. It also contains two poems in Chinese. The volume has several long introductions (all written in Chinese) to the poems that follow. All the poems in this volume were composed between AD 724 and 733, which represents a much greater homogeneity in comparison to books one to four. Most of the poems were written by Yamanoue-no Okura (AD660-733), one of the greatest Man’yōshū poets, who was possibly a Korean from Kudara (Paekche), or at least a descendant of Kudara immigrants to Japan. The spelling system in this volume is predominantly phonographic, with only a few exceptions. In addition, the spelling system appears to reflect Early Western Old Japanese, as demonstrated by Bentley (1997, 2002). The same can be said about its overall grammatical features.

Waka --- Japanese poetry --- Japanese poetry (Collections) --- Japanese literature --- Man'yōsh --- Criticism and interpretation.

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J5730 --- Japan: Literature -- poetry -- haiku, haikai --- Haikai --- Japanese poetry --- Japanese poetry (Collections) --- Japanese literature --- Haiku --- Renga --- History and criticism

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J5710 --- J5506 --- Japan: Literature -- poetry -- Waka, tanka, chōka --- Japan: Literature -- reference works --- Japanese poetry --- Waka --- Japanese poetry (Collections) --- Japanese literature --- Hachidaishū

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For Nirvana features exceptional examples of the poet Cho Oh-Hyun's award-winning work. Cho Oh-Hyun was born in Miryang, South Gyeongsang Province, Korea, and has lived in retreat in the mountains since becoming a novice monk at the age of seven. Writing under the Buddhist name Musan, he has composed hundreds of poems in seclusion, many in the sijo style, a relatively fixed syllabic poetic form similar to Japanese haiku and tanka. For Nirvana contains 108 Zen sijo poems (108 representing the number of klesas, or "defilements," that one must overcome to attain enlightenment). These transfixing works play with traditional religious and metaphysical themes and include a number of "story" sijo, a longer, more personal style that is one of Cho Oh-Hyun's major innovations. Kwon Youngmin, a leading scholar of sijo, provides a contextualizing introduction, and in his afterword, Heinz Insu Fenkl reflects on the unique challenges of translating the collection.

Japanese poetry. --- POETRY / Asian / General. --- Japanese poetry (Collections) --- Japanese literature --- Cho, Pyŏng-hwa, --- Cho, Byung-Hwa, --- Cho, Byunghwa, --- Cho, Byung-Wha, --- Cho, P'yŏnun, --- Cho, Byoung Hwa, --- 趙炳華, --- 趙 炳華, --- 조 병화, --- 조병화,

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Book twenty (20.4293-4516) of the Man'yo¯shu¯ comprises 224 poems (218 tanka , six cho¯ka ) with unspecified genres. From the social point of view this book is the most varied one, as it includes poems from empresses and princes, various strata of the nobility, down to the lowest border guard soldiers. Organized chronologically, book twenty is important for two important reasons. First, it contains many poems written in Eastern Old Japanese. Second, given the fact that many authors of the poems written in Western Old Japanese are well known historical and political figures of the mid-eighth century, it provides an interesting literary background to political struggles that were taking place at this time at the Nara court. Following book twenty the publication sequence will be as follows: book seventeen, book eighteen, book nineteen, book one, book nine, and then starting from book two in numerical order. A full rationale for the publication sequence can be found in book fifteen. Each volume of this new translation contains the original text, kana transliteration, romanization, glossing and commentary.

J5715 --- Man'yoshu --- -Japanese poetry --- -Japanese literature --- Japanese poetry (Collections) --- Japan: Literature -- poetry -- Waka, tanka, chōka -- Man'yōshū --- Criticism and interpretation --- Translations into English --- -Japanese poetry (Collections) --- Japanese literature --- Japanese poetry --- Man'yōshū --- Man'yôsyû --- Man̄yefushifu --- Manʺësi︠u︡ --- Mannyōshū --- Manyŏpchip --- Wan yeh chi --- Nishi Honganji-bon Man'yōshū --- Man.yôshû --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Japanese poetry. --- Man'yōshū. --- To 794 --- Man.yôsh --- Nishi Honganji-bon Man'yōsh --- Mannyōsh --- Manʺësi͡ --- Man'yôsy --- -Criticism and interpretation --- Translations. --- Translations into English.