Episode 76 - The Ten-Thousand Leaves

Published: Nov. 8, 2014, noon

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We\'re turning our attention this week to Japan\'s first classic of poetry: the Man\'yoshu, or the\\xa0Collection of Ten-Thousand Leaves.\\xa0We\'ll trace the origins of the work as well as its cultural impact through the ages, and talk about why it is we should care about a bunch of poems some of which date back to times contemporary with the Roman Empire.

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