Modern Japanese Haiku
Modern Japanese Haiku
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Modern Japanese Haiku by Makoto Ueda
The West has become familiar with Japanese haiku predominantly through the works of classical masters such as Bash , Buson, and Issa. If the leading haiku poets in modern Japan are unknown in the West, it is simply because translations of their works have not been available.
This anthology presents, in English translation, twenty haikus each from the work of twenty modern poets. The writers have been selected to exemplify the various trends that have dominated Japanese haiku in the last hundred years, but the individual haiku have been selected for literary merit; more than anything else this is intended to be a book of poetry.
In the introduction Professor Ueda traces the development of the verse form to the present. Brief biographies of the twenty poets are also provided.
Haiku, by its very nature, asks each reader to be a poet. Thus, for each haiku the poetic translation is accompanied by the original Japanese and a word-by-word translation into English, and the reader is invited to compose his own poem, to enter into that private relationship with the poem that haiku demands.
MAKOTO UEDA is Professor Emeritus of Japanese at Stanford University. He has served as Chairman of the Department of Asian Languages and Director of the Center for East Asian Studies at the university. Professor Ueda's numerous publications in English include Literary and Art Theories in Japan
(Western Reserve University Press), Matsuo Basho (Kodansha International), Modern Japanese Writers and the Nature of Literature (Stanford University Press), Modern Japanese Haiku (University of Toronto Press), Modern Japanese Tanka (Columbia University Press), and The Path of Flowering Thorn: The
Life and Poetry of Yosa Buson (Stanford University Press).
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| ISBN 13 | 9780802062451 |
| ISBN 10 | 0802062458 |
| Title | Modern Japanese Haiku |
| Author | Makoto Ueda |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | University of Toronto Press |
| Year published | 1976-12-15 |
| Number of pages | 265 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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