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1) Shadowings
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A menagerie of observation, philosophy, musing, and storytelling, Shadowings is quirky and charming, not unlike its author, transplanted Westerner Lafcadio Hearn. In this work, Hearn takes us from an ancient Japanese legend of love and spirits to an intimate contemplation on fear to a philosophical study of feminine Japanese names. Applying both his keen aesthetic eye and his uncanny ability to translate feelings as well as words, Hearn awakens the...
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This collection of modern Japanese poetry presents carefully selected works for Western readers. The state of Japanese poetry in the twentieth century, its high quality and individuality is clearly shown in this book. The introduction gives a brief, lucid history of poetry in Japan, with the emphasis on modern poetry. The body of the book is taken up with the translation of the work of forty-nine widely acclaimed poets: free-verse poets, tanka poets,...
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2012
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With the utmost economy and skill, the haiku poet paints a vast mural on a narrow canvas. Working within the strict 17-syllable limits of the traditional Japanese form, Matsuo Basho (1644–1694) and other masters evoke elements of the natural world to conjure up timeless moods and emotions. This volume features dozens of Basho's poems as well as works by his predecessors and ten of his disciples — Kikaku, Ransetsu, Joso, and Kyoroku
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The novella Romaji Diary represents the first instance of a Japanese writer using romaji (roman script) to tell stories in a way that could not be told in kana or kanji. Sad Toys is a collection of 194 Tanka, the traditional 31– syllable poems that are evocative of Japan's misty past and its tentative steps into the wider world. The publication of this edition of two of Takuboku Ishikawa's finest and most popular works together in translation has...
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Sweetheart deals for Wall Street, the nationalization of the automakers, global warming regulations, and Barack Obama's unprecedented spending spree-it's an all-out assault on regular Americans' pocketbooks. President Obama says it's for the good of America, but investigative reporter Timothy P. Carney digs up the dirt to prove it's only good for FOBs-Friends of Barack: the campaign donors, the lobbyists, and the well-connected. In Obamanomics, Carney...
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Yukio Tsuji (1939-2000), born in Asakusa, Tokyo, graduated from the French Department of Meiji University and took the pen name 'kamotsusen' (cargo ship) as a haiku poet. His poems have often been classified as 'light verse', light-hearted in essence; some people inevitably criticized him for his lack of seriousness and of a grand style. Since his poems are structurally beautiful, their architectural forms are, needless to say, the product of much...
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A highly distilled form of Japanese poetry, haiku consists of seventeen syllables, usually divided among three lines. Though brief, they tell a story or paint a vivid picture, leaving it to the reader to draw out the meanings and complete them in the mind's eye. Haiku often contains a hidden dualism (near and far, then and now, etc.) and has a seasonal tie-in, as well as specific word-images that reveal deeper layers in each poem. This unique collection...
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This is a collection of Japanese Senryu poetry-a lesser known cousin to haiku poetry. In 1765 Karai Senryu published a selection of Tsukeku that reflected his personal taste and humor. This anthology, Yanagidaru, became widely popular and was followed by 22 more of the same title, also compiled by Senryu, and a further 144 volumes compiled by his successors to the tradition. The type of poems Karai chose eventually came to be known as Senryu. They...
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La Asociación de Poetas Universal de Japón publica la serie "Dueto" para promover la comunicación entre miembros. Este libro es co-autorizado por el poeta Hindú Dileep Jhaveri y la poeta japonesa Maki Starfield. Los lectores pueden acercarse a este libro con el famoso nombre de Dileep Jhaveri y su obra. También con imaginación poética "dentro de la niebla" y "fuera de la niebla" para probar una fina resonancia de ellos.
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Haiku is an ancient form of Japanese poetry. Its structure has become popular in other languages and today it is probably the best know form of poetry worldwide.
There are few rules to haiku, but they are strict: 17 phonetic sounds, a sense of cutting images or ideas, and a reference to a season. From those restrictions, poets have written about many things, from the year's first blossom to aging, from mosquitoes humming to insects singing, from...
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Selected Poems of Yone Noguchi (1921) is a collection of poems by Yone Noguchi. Although he is widely recognizing as a leading poet in English and Japanese of the modernist period, Noguchi was also a dedicated literary critic who advocated for the cross-pollination of national poetries. Alongside a brilliant introduction, in which he addresses the collective power of world literature, he provides a selection of his best poems from a quarter century...
12) Haiku, Volume 2
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The first volume of my Haiku book was released in early 2020. I am glad that I have been able to jot down a bunch of haiku in the meantime. Here is the second volume of my Haiku book for you. I can say that you will love this book more than the first volume.
13) Haiku, Volume 3
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HAIKU Vol.3 is a collection of Haiku by Noel Lorenz. Haiku is a Japanese form of poetry. I have tried to extract the sweetness of haiku in this book and still stick to the short-long-short format. In my experience, the English and Japanese use the syllabic count differently. Whatever we write cannot be compared to the real count in Japanese 5-7-5.In this book, I have taken haiku to another level by allowing the free count. This book follows short-long-short...
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El haiku japonés es una estrofa que pretende captar los asombros del ser humano. Es un modo poético de hacerse con los instantes. Bash, el padre del haiku, lo definió como "lo que ocurre aquí ahora".
Cualquier suceso, cualquier realidad, grande o pequeña, hermosa o sin aparente belleza, tiene derecho a habitar el haiku. Por eso el escritor inglés, experto en la cultura japonesa y en el género, Reginald Horace Blyth, explicaba que el haiku...
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Esta colección toca todos los temas queridos por los poetas: naturaleza, amor, amistad, sueños, poesía, divinidad.
Realmente podemos encontrarnos en estos poemas, tan simples y tan profundos al mismo tiempo.
Podemos ocuparnos del alma delicada y soñadora de la poetisa y sentimos su corazón vibrar, mientras sus versos, estrofa tras estrofa, nos llevan al fondo de su alma, tan enamorada de la Vida.
Fabrizio Legger (Postremo Vate) de la introducción....
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Más allá de su fama de enfant terrible y de su marcada inclinación por el suicidio, Osamu Dazai (1909-1948) es sin ninguna duda uno de los máximos exponentes de la moderna literatura japonesa. A contracorriente siempre de las normas preestablecidas en una sociedad tan rígida y conservadora como la japonesa, Dazai se convirtió, a pesar de su origen aristocrático, en un auténtico paria. Su existencia estuvo signada por la vergüenza, la perplejidad,...
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This is a collection of Japanese haiku written by an American poet Helen Chenoweth. The author has used a language that is all American in association, but very much enriched by her love for things Japanese."Poetry in Japan is as universal as air. It is read by everybody, composed by almost everybody, irrespective of class and condition." This statement by Lafcadio Hearn deeply impressed Helen Chenoweth. In course of her comprehensive studies in the...
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2013
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Matsuo Basho (1644-94) is considered Japan's greatest haiku poet. Narrow Road to the Interior (Oku no Hosomichi) is his masterpiece. Ostensibly a chronological account of the poet's five-month journey in 1689 into the deep country north and west of the old capital, Edo, the work is in fact artful and carefully sculpted, rich in literary and Zen allusion and filled with great insights and vital rhythms. In Basho's Narrow Road: Spring...
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To Walk in Seasons is designed to help the beginner discover haiku for himself, and eventually create his own haiku poems. It includes a lively and sensitive introduction on the nature of haiku. For individual study, or for use in the classroom, it also contains a study guide aimed at recreating the thought processes behind this terse, concentrated form. Mr. Cohen's poetry like his anthology illuminates poetic experience: "To walk in seasons/is to...
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Kagero Nikki, translated here as The Gossamer Years, belongs to the same period as the celebrated Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikuibu. This remarkably frank autobiographical diary and personal confession attempts to describe a difficult relationship as it reveals two tempestuous decades of the author's unhappy marriage and her growing indignation at rival wives and mistresses. Too impetuous to be satisfied as a subsidiary wife, this beautiful (and...
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