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Author Keene, Donald

Title The Winter Sun Shines In : a Life of Masaoka Shiki
Published New York : Columbia University Press, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (275 pages)
Series Asia Perspectives: History, Society, and Culture
Asia perspectives.
Contents Introduction; 1. The Early Years; 2. Student Days; 3. The Song of the Hototogisu; 4. Shiki the Novelist; 5. Cathay and the Way Thither; 6. Sketches from Life; 7. Hototogisu; 8. Shiki and the Tanka; 9. Shintaishi and Kanshi; 10. Random Essays (Zuihitsu), 1; 11. Random Essays, 2; 12. The Last Days; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary Rather than resist the vast social and cultural changes sweeping Japan in the nineteenth century, the poet Masaoka Shiki (1867?1902) incorporated new Western influences into his country's native haiku and tanka verse. By reinvigorating these traditional forms, Shiki freed them from outdated conventions and made them more responsive to newer trends in artistic expression. Altogether, his reforms made the haiku Japan's most influential modern cultural export. Based on extensive readings of Shiki's own writings and accounts of the poet by his contemporaries and family, Donald Keene ch
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes In English
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Subject Masaoka, Shiki, 1867-1902
Masaoka, Shiki, 1867-1902
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Asian -- General.
HISTORY -- Asia -- Japan.
Genre/Form Electronic books
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2012048137
ISBN 9780231535311
0231535317