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Author : Hosai Ozaki
Release : 1998-07-01
Genre : Poetry
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Book Rating : 051/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Right under the big sky, I don't wear a hat by : Hosai Ozaki
Download or read book Right under the big sky, I don't wear a hat written by Hosai Ozaki. This book was released on 1998-07-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Haiku and occasional essays from an eccentric personality.
Author : Hiroaki Sato
Release : 2018-10-30
Genre : Poetry
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Book Rating : 421/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis On Haiku by : Hiroaki Sato
Download or read book On Haiku written by Hiroaki Sato. This book was released on 2018-10-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everything you want to know about haiku written by one of the foremost experts in the field and the “finest translator of contemporary Japanese poetry into American English” (Gary Snyder) Who doesn’t love haiku? It is not only America’s most popular cultural import from Japan but also our most popular poetic form: instantly recognizable, more mobile than a sonnet, loved for its simplicity and compression, as well as its ease of composition. Haiku is an ancient literary form seemingly made for the Twittersphere—Jack Kerouac and Langston Hughes wrote them, Ezra Pound and the Imagists were inspired by them, Hallmark’s made millions off them, first-grade students across the country still learn to write them. But what really is a haiku? Where does the form originate? Who were the original Japanese poets who wrote them? And how has their work been translated into English over the years? The haiku form comes down to us today as a cliché: a three-line poem of 5-7-5 syllables. And yet its story is actually much more colorful and multifaceted. And of course to write a good one can be as difficult as writing a Homeric epic—or it can materialize in an instant of epic inspiration. In On Haiku, Hiroaki Sato explores the many styles and genres of haiku on both sides of the Pacific, from the classical haiku of Basho, Issa, and Zen monks, to modern haiku about swimsuits and atomic bombs, to the haiku of famous American writers such as J. D. Salinger and Allen Ginsburg. As if conversing over beers in your favorite pub, Sato explains everything you wanted to know about the haiku in this endearing and pleasurable book, destined to be a classic in the field.
Author : Santōka Taneda
Release : 2003
Genre : Education
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Book Rating : 161/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis For All My Walking by : Santōka Taneda
Download or read book For All My Walking written by Santōka Taneda. This book was released on 2003. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taneda Santoka's poetry attracted limited notice during his lifetime (1882-1940), but there has been a remarkable upsurge of interest in his life and writings. Including 245 poems and selected diary excerpts, For All My Walking makes Santoka's work available to English-speaking readers.
Author : Matsuo Basho
Release : 2013-06-15
Genre : Poetry
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Book Rating : 275/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Basho's Narrow Road by : Matsuo Basho
Download or read book Basho's Narrow Road written by Matsuo Basho. This book was released on 2013-06-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stimulating exploration of the haiku masterpiece. Matsuo Basho (1644-94) is considered Japan's greatest haiku poet. Narrow Road to the Interior (Oku no Hosomichi) is his masterpiece. Ostensibly a chronological account of the poet's five-month journey in 1689 into the deep country north and west of the old capital, Edo, the work is in fact artful and carefully sculpted, rich in literary and Zen allusion and filled with great insights and vital rhythms. In Basho's Narrow Road: Spring and Autumn Passages, poet and translator Hiroaki Sato presents the complete work in English and examines the threads of history, geography, philosophy, and literature that are woven into Basho's exposition. He details in particular the extent to which Basho relied on the community of writers with whom he traveled and joined in linked verse (renga) poetry sessions, an example of which, A Farewell Gift to Sora, is included in this volume. In explaining how and why Basho made the literary choices he did, Sato shows how the poet was able to transform his passing observations into words that resonate across time and culture.
Author : Princess Shikishi (daughter of Goshirakawa, Emperor of Japan)
Release : 1993-01-01
Genre : Poetry
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Book Rating : 830/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis String of Beads by : Princess Shikishi (daughter of Goshirakawa, Emperor of Japan)
Download or read book String of Beads written by Princess Shikishi (daughter of Goshirakawa, Emperor of Japan). This book was released on 1993-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Princess Shikishi, Emperor Goshirakawa's third daughter, who served as saiin, or shrine vestal, in her teens, left a body of poems luminous with tranquil beauty and sadness. In her own lifetime she was counted among the outstanding poets of the age. In this volume, noted translator Hiroaki Sato makes available in one-line form all of the tanka - 400 poems - attributed to Princess Shikishi. Following an introduction that details Shikishi's era and the prosodic techniques of her time, Sato presents a group of poems gleaned from anthologies - among them a sequence of eleven which Shikishi wrote in condolence for the death of the wife of Fujiwara no Shunzei, her mentor - and three important 100-poem sequences. To provide allusive contexts, many of the poems are accompanied by extensive footnotes and endnotes, often with complete episodes from Tale of Ise and other classical texts.
