Gustav Heldt brings an innovative approach to his English-language translation of the Kojiki (712), Japan’s oldest extant narrative text, and one of paramount cultural significance for its mythic accounts of the origins of Japan and its early rulers, as well as its wondrous accounts of wooing and rivalries enacted in song and trickery. Reviewed by Ann Wehmeyer (University of Florida) New York: Columbia University Press, 2014. The Kojiki: An Account of Ancient Matters.
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