Miyazawa Kenji : Selections / Kenji Miyazawa; Hiroaki Sato.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Miyazawa, Kenji, Author.

Contributor:

Sato, Hiroaki, Editor.

Series:

Poets for the millennium.

Poets for the Millennium ; 5

Standardized Title:

Works. Selections. English. 2007

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Miyazawa, Kenji, 1896-1933--Criticism and interpretation.

Miyazawa, Kenji.

Miyazawa, Kenji, 1896-1933--Translations into English.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (274 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2007]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The poet Miyazawa Kenji (1896-1933) was an early twentieth-century Japanese modernist who today is known worldwide for his poetry and stories as well as his devotion to Buddhism. Miyazawa Kenji: Selections collects a wide range of his poetry and provides an excellent introduction to his life and work. Miyazawa was a teacher of agriculture by profession and largely unknown as a poet until after his death. Since then his work has increasingly attracted a devoted following, especially among ecologists, Buddhists, and the literary avant-garde. This volume includes poems translated by Gary Snyder, who was the first to translate a substantial body of Miyazawa's work into English. Hiroaki Sato's own superb translations, many never before published, demonstrate his deep familiarity with Miyazawa's poetry. His remarkable introduction considers the poet's significance and suggests ways for contemporary readers to approach his work. It further places developments in Japanese poetry into a global context during the first decades of the twentieth century. In addition the book features a Foreword by the poet Geoffrey O'Brien and essays by Tanikawa Shuntaro, Yoshimasu Gozo, and Michael O'Brien.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

ILLUSTRATIONS

FOREWORD: A Modernist in the Mountains

INTRODUCTION

A NOTE ON THE TRANSLATIONS

POEMS

ON MIYAZAWA KENJI

GLOSSARY OF JAPANESE NAMES AND TERMS

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Notes:

Translated from the Japanese.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-246).

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9786612772061

9780520939585

0520939581

9781282772069

1282772066

OCLC:

558876178