Haiku: An Anthology of Japanese PoemsA poetry collection honoring the haiku—complete with poet biographies, translator commentary, and Japanese artwork This celebration of what is perhaps the most influential of all poetic forms takes haiku back to its Japanese roots. Beginning with poems by the seventeenth and eighteenth-century masters Basho, Busson, and Issa, the anthology goes all the way up to the late twentieth century to provide a survey of haiku through the centuries, in all its minimalist glory. The translators have balanced faithfulness to the Japanese with an appreciation of the unique spirit of each poem to create English versions that evoke the joy and wonder of the originals with the same astonishing economy of language. An introduction by the translators and short biographies of the poets are included. Reproductions of woodblock prints and paintings accompany the poems. |
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Haiku: An Anthology of Japanese Poems Stephen Addiss,Fumiko Y. Yamamoto,Akira Y. Yamamoto No preview available - 2009 |
Common terms and phrases
Anonymous autumn dusk autumn wind BAITEI bamboo Basho Basho¯’s haiku Born Buddha Buson butterfly child Chine-jo Chinese-style Chiyo-jo Cho¯sui Chögyam Trungpa cool Dakotsu dates and details details unknown dragonfly Edo Period Edo Tokyo famous firefly flower Freer Translation frog frog jumps Fu¯sei grass haiga haiku journal Hototogisu haiku poet haiku style HAKUIN EKAKU Hekigodo Hototogisu humor Iida Dakotsu IKE TAIGA Japanese Jo¯so Kigin Kijo Kikaku Ko¯yo Kubota Mantaro Kyo¯tai Kyorai Kyoto Kyūrö Gafu 1795 Masaoka Shiki moon moon-viewing mosquito mountains moved to Kyoto Ogiwara Seisensui Old pond Onitsura Ontei Osaka Otsuyu painting Pema Chödrön plum blossoms poems poetry pupils of Basho Ransetsu Ryo¯kan Saimaro samurai scarecrow Seisei Seisensui Sekitei senryu Shado Shambhala Shiga Prefecture Shigeyori Shiko Shirao Sho¯ha snow So¯cho So¯kan So¯seki Spring rain studied haiku Sudden shower Summer rains Takahama Kyoshi Tei-jo Teitoku Thomas Merton verse waka Weatherhill winter rain withered wrote haiku YAMAGUCHI SoKEN Yorie Yu¯ji Zen master