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PublisherColumbia University Press
ISBN-100231104332
ISBN-139780231104333
eBay Product ID (ePID)108163
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Book TitleModern Japanese Tanka : an Anthology
Number of Pages288 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1996
TopicAsian / Japanese, Poetry
GenreLiterary Criticism, Poetry
AuthorMakoto Ueda
Book SeriesModern Asian Literature Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.1 in
Item Weight12.5 Oz
Item Length0.9 in
Item Width0.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN95-040016
Reviews"Owing to masterful editing and translating by Makoto Ueda, the beauty of the original poetry shines forth throughout this volume." -- Choice
Dewey Edition20
Grade FromCollege Graduate Student
Dewey Decimal895.6/1008
Table Of ContentPreface Introduction Yosano Tekkan (1873-1935) Masaoka Shiki (1867-1902) Mori Ogai (1862-1922) Yosano Akiko (1878-1942) Ishikawa Takuboku (1886-1912) Saito Mokichi (1882-1953) Kitahara Hakushu (1885-1942) Shaku Choku (1887-1953) Toki Zenmaro (1885-1980) Okamoto Kanoko (1889-1939) Miyazawa Kenji (1896-1932) Okuma Nobuyuki (1893-1977) Maekawa Samio (1903-1990) Saito Fumi (b. 1909) Miya Shuji (1911-1986) Kondo Yoshimi (b. 1913) Tsukamoto Kunio (b. 1922) Nakajo Fumiko (1922-1954) Sasaki Yukitsuna (b. 1938) Tawara Machi (b. 1962) Selected Biography Copyright Acknowledgments
SynopsisTanka, a clasical Japanese verse form like haiku, has experienced a resurgence of interest among twentieth-century poets and readers. Arguably the central genre of Japanese literature, the 31-syllable lyric made up the great majority of Japanese poetry from the ninth to the nineteenth century and was the inspiration for such poetry as haiku and renga. Tanka has begun to attract considerable attention in North America in recent years. Modern Japanese Tanka is the first comprehensive collection available in English. Tanka retains the aesthetic sensibilities that circumscribe Japanese culture, but just as Japan has changed during this tumultuous century, tanka has undergone equally radical shifts. Responding to artistic and social movements of the West, tanka has incorporated influences ranging from Marxism to Avant-Garde. Modern Japanese Tanka includes four hundred poems by twenty of Japan's most renowned poets who have made major contributions to the hisotry of tanka in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. With his graceful, eloquent translations, Makoto Ueda captures the distinct voices of these individual poets, providing biographical sketches of each as well as transliterating Japanese text below each poem. His introduction gives an excellent overview of the development of tanka in the last one hundred years. Tracing the contemporary tanka tradition from Yosana Tekkan in the late nineteenth century to the late twentieth-century poetry of such writers as Taware Machi, Modern Japanese Tanks elegantly conveys an authentic sense of Japanese lyric to a Western audience., Tanka, a clasical Japanese verse form like haiku, has experienced a resurgence of interest among twentieth-century poets and readers. Arguably the central genre of Japanese literature, the 31-syllable lyric made up the great majority of Japanese poetry from the ninth to the nineteenth century and was the inspiration for such poetry as haiku and renga. Tanka has begun to attract considerable attention in North America in recent years. Modern Japanese Tanka is the first comprehensive collection available in English., Like haiku, tanka is a short, classical verse form that has attracted considerable attention in this century. This is the first collection of modern tanka available in English.
LC Classification NumberPL782.E3M66 1996
