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Collected Haiku of Yosa Buson / Yosa Buson ; translated by W.S. Merwin & Takako Lento.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Yosa, Buson, 1716-1784.
- Language:
- English
- Japanese
- Subjects (All):
- Japanese poetry--Edo period, 1600-1868--Translations into English.
- Japanese poetry.
- Haiku--Translations into English.
- Haiku.
- Japanese poetry--Edo period.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 247 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Port Townsend, Washington : Copper Canyon Press, [2013]
- Summary:
- Collected Haiku of Yosa Buson is the first complete translation of the Collected Haiku of Master Buson (1784); included here as well are Yosa Buson's (1716-1783) innovative free-form haishi. W.S. Merwin and Takako Lento worked for nearly a decade to co-translate the poems, which are organized according to season and filled with resonant philosophical inquiry and wisdom about the natural world. Under the care of Merwin and Lento, Buson's vision emerges in an English as luminous as the original Japanese. His poems are sometimes humorous, Whenever I sleep, with my socks on, I have bad dreams, at other times mournful, I have brought the melancholy of my heart, up the hill, to the wild roses in flower, and always richly nuanced despite a seeming simplicity of surface. You break off a branch of holly to give me, I will not lose the red berries, of your heart, As Merwin and Lento observe in the "Note from the Translators," Buson "is uniquely carefree and unbound by convention, conveying the realities of life with immediacy and warmth." Their notes and commentary on the context of the poems - and on the collaboration process - make Collected Haiku of Yosa Buson an essential addition to the world's canon of great writing. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Collected Haiku of Master Buson
- Preface 5
- Spring: The New Year 7
- The Bush Warbler 7
- Weeping Willows 10
- Plum Trees in Flower 11
- Early Spring 15
- The Servants' Holiday 16
- Spring Air 17
- The Rivers in Spring 21
- Spring Rain 13
- Camellias 27
- Five Grains Day 27
- Mud Snails 29
- After the Geese Have Gone 29
- Pheasants 32
- Spring Day 36
- Swallows 37
- Spring Breeze 38
- Frogs 39
- New Life 41
- Azaleas 43
- Doll Festival 45
- Peach Blossoms 46
- A Kite 47
- Cherry Blossoms 48
- Spring Twilight 56
- Pear Blossoms 58
- Wisteria 58
- Mustard Flowers 59
- The End of Spring 60
- Summer: Summer Clothes 64
- The Little Cuckoo 66
- Peonies 69
- The Call of the Cuckoo 71
- Short Summer Nights 74
- Summer Flowers and Fruit 77
- Mosquitoes 81
- Early Summer 84
- Marinated Sushi 87
- The Path through Wild Roses 89
- Summertime 90
- The May Rain 94
- Summer Visitors 96
- Summer Afternoon 98
- Cormorant Fishermen 100
- A Summer Retreat 101
- Summer Grass and Flowers 104
- Lotus 105
- Praying for Rain 106
- Summer Moon 107
- Melon Shed 108
- Sweet Amazake Brew 109
- Cicadas 110
- Sachet 111
- Fans 112
- Gion Festival 113
- By the River 114
- Summer Shower 116
- Poverty 117
- Towering Clouds 118
- Late Summer Heat 119
- Arrowroot Water 120
- Hot Summer Days 121
- Summer Ceremonies 122
- Autumn: Autumn 124
- Bon Festival to Honor Ancestors' Souls 127
- Lightning 129
- Sumo Festival 130
- Wildflowers in Autumn 131
- Dew 135
- Autumn Deepens 137
- The Moon 139
- Insects 140
- The Harvest Moon 142
- The Stag 147
- Autumn Evening 149
- Gourds 152
- Scarecrows 153
- Buckwheat 155
- Autumn Views 156
- Bass 157
- Birds 158
- Autumn Travels 160
- Autumn Night 161
- Pounding Cloth 163
- Cold Autumn 164
- September 13th Moon 166
- Chrysanthemums 167
- Red Maples 169
- Rice Paddies 171
- Cold Autumn Nights 173
- Fond Memories 175
- Sweet Acorns 176
- Hot Red Peppers 176
- Holly Branches 177
- Hunting for Mushrooms 178
- The End of Autumn 178
- Winter: Winter Rain 181
- Hibernation 183
- Bedclothes in Winter 184
- Winter Ceremonies 186
- Tea Flowers 187
- Tea Ceremonies 188
- Plovers-Water Birds 189
- Winter Flowers 191
- Cold Nights 193
- Fields in Winter 195
- Leaves Falling 198
- Eating Blowfish 200
- Winter Cold 202
- Hoods 210
- Paper Robes 210
- Head Covering 211
- Kabuki Theater 212
- Winter Solstice 213
- Narcissus 213
- Bare Days of Winter 214
- Winter Trees 216
- Chants and Gongs at Night 217
- The Fire Festival 219
- In the Cold 219
- Eight Verses on a Humble Life 220
- Hail 222
- Dried Salmon 223
- Winter Plum Blossoms 224
- Winter Moon 223
- Ascetics in the Cold 226
- Wild Flesh 227
- Year's End 229
- Postscript 233
- Haishi
- In mourning for Hokuju, the Elder Hermit 237
- Songs of Spring Breeze over Kema Bank 239
- Song of the Yodo 245.
- ISBN:
- 9781556594267
- 1556594267
- 9781556594274
- 1556594275
- OCLC:
- 823742051
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