Japanese Women Poets: An Anthology - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Japanese Women Poets: An Anthology write by Hiroaki Sato. This book was released on 2014-12-18. Japanese Women Poets: An Anthology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Throughout history, Japanese women have excelled in poetry - from the folk songs of the Kojiki (Record of Ancient Matters) compiled in 712 and the court poetry of the 9th to the 14th centuries, on through the age of haikai and kanshi to the 19th century, into the contemporary period when books of women's poems have created a sensation.This anthology presents examples of the work of more than 100 Japanese women poets, arranged chronologically, and of all the major verse forms: choka, tanka, haikai (haiku), kanshi (verse written in Chinese), and free verse. The poems describe not just seasonal changes and the vagaries of love - which form the thematic core of traditional Japanese poetry - but also the devastations of war, childbirth, conflicts between child-rearing and work, experiences as refugees, experiences as non-Japanese residents in Japan, and more.Sections of poetry open with headnotes, and the editor has provided explanations of terms and references for those unfamiliar with the Japanese language. Other useful tools include a glossary of poetic terms, a chronology, and a bibliography that points the reader toward other works by and about these poets. There is no comparable collection available in English.Students and anyone who appreciates poetry and Japanese culture will treasure this magnificent anthology. Editor and translator Hiroaki Sato is a past winner of the PEN America translator prize and the Japan-United States Friendship Commission's 1999 literary translation award.
Women Poets of Japan
Women Poets of Japan - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Women Poets of Japan write by Kenneth Rexroth. This book was released on 1982. Women Poets of Japan available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From early as the seventh century up to the present day, no other has had so many important women poets as Japan.
Far Beyond the Field
Far Beyond the Field - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Far Beyond the Field write by Makoto Ueda. This book was released on 2003. Far Beyond the Field available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Far Beyond the Field is a first-of-its-kind anthology of haiku by Japanese women, collecting translations of four hundred haiku written by twenty poets from the seventeenth century to the present. By arranging the poems chronologically, Makoto Ueda has created an overview of the way in which this enigmatic seventeen-syllable form has been used and experimented with during different eras. At the same time, the reader is admitted to the often marginalized world of female experience in Japan, revealing voices every bit as rich and colorful, and perhaps even more lyrical and erotic, than those found in male haiku. Listen, for instance, to Chiyojo, who worked in what has been long thought of as the dark age of haiku during the eighteenth century, but who composed exquisitely fine poems tracing the smallest workings of nature. Or Katsuro Nobuko, who wrote powerfully erotic poems when she was widowed after only two years of marriage. And here, too, is a voice from today, Mayuzumi Madoka, whose meditations on romantic love represent a fresh new approach to haiku.
The Burning Heart
The Burning Heart - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Burning Heart write by Kenneth Rexroth. This book was released on 1977. The Burning Heart available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Haiku
Haiku - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Haiku write by Stephen Addiss. This book was released on 2009-10-13. Haiku available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A poetry collection honoring the haiku—complete with poet biographies, translator commentary, and Japanese artwork This celebration of what is perhaps the most influential of all poetic forms takes haiku back to its Japanese roots. Beginning with poems by the seventeenth and eighteenth-century masters Basho, Busson, and Issa, the anthology goes all the way up to the late twentieth century to provide a survey of haiku through the centuries, in all its minimalist glory. The translators have balanced faithfulness to the Japanese with an appreciation of the unique spirit of each poem to create English versions that evoke the joy and wonder of the originals with the same astonishing economy of language. An introduction by the translators and short biographies of the poets are included. Reproductions of woodblock prints and paintings accompany the poems.
