Of women : 20 Japanese female poets, 20 Waka poems / translated by Naoko Fujimoto.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fujimoto, Naoko, 1983- Translator, Artist, Writer of added commentary.

Language:

English

Japanese

Subjects (All):

Waka--Women authors.

Waka.

Japanese poetry--Women authors--To 1185.

Japanese poetry.

Genre:

Translations into English.

poetry.

tankas (poems)

Tanka.

Poetry.

Translations.

Physical Description:

ii, 80 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm

illustrations.

Edition:

First paperback edition.

Place of Publication:

North Adams, Massachusetts : Tupelo Press, 2026.

Language Note:

In English; some words and phrases in Japanese.

Summary:

"Naoko Fujimoto is a remarkable translator, and of Women: 20 Japanese Female Poets / 20 Waka Poems is a fascinating project. This short book is more than a translation-it's a very personal creative response, literary and artistic, to the poems and the brilliant women who produced them from the 7th - 12th centuries. Fujimoto has a beautiful ear for the music of poetry in colloquial English, and a deep feeling for the often rightly outraged rhetoric of the poems, many of which focus on "waiting for men," a pervasive injustice of the era. Her renderings of the poems are sometimes daringly impressionistic, in ways that seem linguistically surprising, as well as right and true. I'm very grateful that Naoko Fujimoto has celebrated this moment when women were the best writers in the world. -Patrick Donnelly, co-translator of the poems in The Wind from Vulture Peak, winner of the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Prize for the Translation of Japanese Literature"-- Provided by publisher.

Other Format:

Online version Fujimoto, Naoko, 1983- Of women

ISBN:

9781961209572

1961209578

OCLC:

1538493666

Publisher Number:

90104871960