Man'yōshū (Book 20) A New English Translation Containing the Original Text, Kana Transliteration, Romanization, Glossing and Commentary

Alexander Vovin, Professor of East Asian Languages at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, has published extensively on Japanese, Ainu, Korean and Tungusic, as well as other languages of East and Inner Asia. Among his major works are "A Reconstruction of Proto-Ainu" (Brill, 1993), "A Reference Grammar of Classical Japanese Prose" (RoutledgeCurzon, 2003) and "Nihongo Keitoron no Genzai/Perspectives on the Origins of the Japanese Language" (co-edited with Osada Toshiki, the International Center for Japanese Studies, Kyoto, 2003).