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In the sixth month of 736, a Japanese diplomatic mission set out for the kingdom of Silla, on the Korean peninsula. The envoys undertook the mission during a period of strained relations with the country of their destination, met with adverse winds and disease during the voyage, and returned empty-handed. The futile journey proved fruitful in one respect: its literary representation- a collection of 145 Japanese poems and their Sino-Japanese (kanbun) headnotes and footnotes- made its way into the eighth-century poetic anthology Man'yoshu, becoming the longest poetic sequence in the collection and one of the earliest Japanese literary travel narratives. Featuring deft translations and incisive analysis, this study investigates the poetics and thematics of the Silla sequence, uncovering what is known about the actual historical event and the assumptions and concerns that guided its recreation as a literary artifact and then helped shape its reception among contemporary readers. H. Mack Horton provides an opportunity for literary archaeology of some of the most exciting dialectics in early Japanese literary history: between oral practice and the tentative beginnings of the written tradition, between religious ritual and literary art, between native and imported artistic systems, and between communal expression and the development of the individual literary consciousness. -- Book Jacket.

Travel in literature. --- Japanese poetry --- History and criticism. --- Man'yōshū --- Silla (Kingdom) --- Travel in literature --- Voyages and travels in literature --- History and criticism --- Man'yōshū --- Man'yôsyû --- Man̄yefushifu --- Manʺësi︠u︡ --- Mannyōshū --- Manyŏpchip --- Wan yeh chi --- Nishi Honganji-bon Man'yōshū --- Man.yôshû --- Tʻongil Silla (Kingdom) --- Unified Silla (Kingdom) --- Shiragi (Kingdom) --- J4812.12 --- J4810.20 --- K9551.11 --- K9540.30 --- J5715 --- Japan: International politics and law -- international relations, policy and security -- Asia -- Korea (South) --- Japan: International politics and law -- international relations, policy and security -- Nara period (645-794) --- Korea: International politics, law and relations -- Asia -- Japan --- Korea: International politics, law and relations -- history -- Three kingdoms period (313-935) --- Japan: Literature -- poetry -- Waka, tanka, chōka -- Man'yōshū --- Japanese poetry (Collections) --- Japanese literature --- Korea: International politics, law and relations -- history -- Three kingdoms period (57 BC-935 AD) --- T'ongil Silla (Kingdom)