App Description

NOTICE--Performance tested for iOS4. Display is optimized for iPhone3GS device and former version.

A selection of waka from the ancient literary collection, Manyoshu. Beautifull English renditions together with the Japanese originals, commentary, and photographs of the natural beauty and cultural legacies of Asuka Nara, the setting for this masterpiece.

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There is a luster to thirteen-hundred year old Japanese poems
which makes its appear as if they had been written yesterday.
Here is a selection of the best of the Man'yoshu, combined
with images by Japan's most eminent living photographer of
the landscape which inspired "the ten thousand leaves."
Man'yo Luster is a fusion of words and images, a double
rendering of an archaic vision for the contemporary world.
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Ian Hideo Levy / extracts from "Gloss of Manyo"


-Including 86 poems.
-Swich language with one button
-Read it like turning over each pages by your fingers
-Slide show of Man'yo Luster
-Switch the photos open/closed

iPhone Screenshots

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Manyo Luster screenshot 1 Manyo Luster screenshot 2 Manyo Luster screenshot 3 Manyo Luster screenshot 4 Manyo Luster screenshot 5

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