Well-versed : exploring modern Japanese haiku / Ozawa Minoru ; translated by Janine Beichman ; photographed by Maeda Shinzō and Akira.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ozawa, Minoru, 1956- author.

小澤實, 1956- author.

Contributor:

Beichman, Janine, translator.

Maeda, Shinzō, 1922-1998, photographer.

Maeda, Akira, 1955- photographer.

Series:

Japan library (Shuppan Bunka Sangyō Shinkō Zaidan)

Japan library

Standardized Title:

Meiku no yuen. English

名句の所以. English http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2021101364

Language:

English

Japanese

Subjects (All):

Haiku--History and criticism.

Haiku.

Japanese poetry--1868---History and criticism.

Japanese poetry.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Poetry.

Physical Description:

375 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 22 cm.

Edition:

First English edition.

Place of Publication:

Tokyo : Japan Publishing Industry Foundation for Culture (JPIC), 2021.

Summary:

This volume of seasonally-arranged poems is a guide to the appreciation and enjoyment of the great variety of modern Japanese haiku. From turn-of-the-century masters to poets of the twenty-first century, 300 of Japan's best modern haiku are introduced by the author, a leading contemporary haiku poet and critic. Each of the poems, many of them scarcely known, is sensitively discussed together with the background of the poem and the relations between the poets. This volume includes poems from the end of the nineteenth century through the beginning of the twenty-first century by the most important writers of modern haiku. These writers include Masaoka Shiki and his disciple Takahama Kyoshi, as well as poets who experimented with new styles such as seasonless haiku, free form haiku, and multi-line haiku. Alongside these are works by well-known novelists and other cultural figures who were not professional haiku poets, but for whom haiku was an important part of their lives, such as Kubota Mantarō, Akutagawa Ryūnosuke, and Natsume Sōseki. The book also features seasonal photographs at the beginning of each chapter, and an additional 20 haiku by the author. -- From publisher's description.

Contents:

New Year

Spring

Summer

Autumn

Winter

Seasonless

Twenty haiku / Ozawa Minoru.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Translation of : Meiku no yuen : kin-gendai haiku o jikkuri yomu (名句の所以 : 近現代俳句をじっくり読む).

Related Work:

Translation of: Ozawa, Minoru, 1956- Meiku no yuen.

Translation of: Ozawa, Minoru, 1956- 名句の所以.

ISBN:

9784866581798

4866581794

OCLC:

1246216062