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Haiku before haiku : from the Renga masters to Bashō / translated, with an introduction, by Steven D. Carter.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Translations from the Asian classics.
- Translations from the Asian classics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Haiku--Translations into English.
- Haiku.
- Japanese poetry--1185-1600--Translations into English.
- Japanese poetry.
- Japanese poetry--Edo period, 1600-1868--Translations into English.
- Renga--Translations into English.
- Renga.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (176 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Columbia University Press, c2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- While the rise of the charmingly simple, brilliantly evocative haiku is often associated with the seventeenth-century Japanese poet Matsuo Basho, the form had already flourished for three hundred years before Basho even began to write. These early poems, known as hokku, are identical to haiku in syllable count and structure but function differently as a genre. Whereas each haiku is its own constellation of image and meaning, hokku opens a a series of linked, collaborative stanzas in a sequence called renga.Under the mastery of Basho, hokku first g
- Contents:
- Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; The Poems; The Nun Abutsu; Mushō; Zenna; Reizei Tamesuke; Musō Soseki; Junkaku; Gusai; Nijō Yoshimoto; Shūa; Sōa; Asayama Bontō; Mitsuhiro; Fushiminomiya Sadafusa; Chiun; Takayama Sōzei; Gyōjo; Nōa; Shinkei; Senjun; Sugiwara Sōi; Sōgi; Hino Tomiko; Emperor Go-Tsuchimikado; Ōuchi Masahiro; Inkō; Shōhaku; Sakurai Motosuke; Sōchō; Inawashiro Kensai; Sanjōnishi Sanetaka; Sōseki; Reizei Tamekazu; Tani Sōboku; Shūkei; Sōyō; Arakida Moritake; Shōkyū; Ikkadō Jōa; Sanjōnishi Kin'eda; Miyoshi Chōkei; Satomura Jōha; Satomura Shōshitsu; Oka Kōsetsu; Hosokawa Yūsai
- Satomura GenjōMatsudaira Ietada; Shōtaku; Matsunaga Teitoku; Wife of Mitsusada; Miura Tamenori; Nishiyama Sōin; Nōjun; Konishi Raizan; Matsuo Bashō; Bibliography
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9786612990427
- 9781282990425
- 128299042X
- 9780231527064
- 0231527063
- OCLC:
- 818856222
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