Breeze through bamboo : Kanshi of Ema Saikō / translated, with an introduction and notes by Hiroaki Sato ; with illustrations by the poet.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ema, Saikō, 1787-1861.

Contributor:

Sato, Hiroaki, 1942-

Series:

Translations from the Asian classics

Language:

English

Japanese

Physical Description:

xvi, 246 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, [1998]

Summary:

Assembled here are beautiful translations of kanshi poetry--verse written in classical Chinese, but read as Japanese--by the only known woman writer of the form in the Tokugawa period. Ema Saiko (1787-1861) distinguished herself as a writer of kanshi at a time when composition in Chinese was the strict province of men. Organized chronologically, these poems provide an engaging portrait of an artist's life.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-237).

ISBN:

0231110642

0231110650

OCLC:

37043897