Title Haiku before haiku : from the Renga masters to Bashō / translated, with an introduction, by Steven D. Carter

Published New York : Columbia University Press, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 163 pages) Series Translations from the Asian classics Translations from the Asian classics. Contents Machine generated contents note: The Poems -- The Nun Abutsu -- Musho -- Zenna -- Reizei Tamesuke -- Muso Soseki -- Junkaku -- Gusai -- Nijo Yoshimoto -- Shua -- Soa -- Asayama Bonto -- Mitsuhiro -- Fushiminomiya Sadafusa -- Chiun -- Takayama Sozei -- Gyojo -- Noa -- Shinkei -- Senjun -- Sugiwara Soi -- Sogi -- Hino Tomiko -- Emperor Go-Tsuchimikado -- Ouchi Masahiro -- Inko -- Shohaku -- Sakurai Motosuke -- Socho -- Inawashiro Kensai -- Sanjonishi Sanetaka -- Soseki -- Reizei Tamekazu -- Tani Soboku -- Shukei -- Soyo -- Arakida Moritake -- Shokyu -- Ikkado Joa -- Sanjonishi Kin'eda -- Miyoshi Chokei -- Satomura Joha -- Satomura Shoshitsu -- Oka Kosetsu -- Hosokawa Yusai -- Satomura Genjo -- Matsudaira Ietada -- Shotaku -- Nishinoto'in Tokiyoshi -- Matsunaga Teitoku -- Wife of Mitsusada -- Miura Tamenori -- Nishiyama Soin -- Nojun -- Konishi Raizan -- Matsuo Basho Summary While the rise of the charmingly simple, brilliantly evocative haiku is often associated with the seventeenth-century Japanese poet Matsuo Basho, the form had already flourished for three hundred years before Basho even began to write. These early poems, known as hokku, are identical to haiku in syllable count and structure but function differently as a genre. Whereas each haiku is its own constellation of image and meaning, hokku opens a a series of linked, collaborative stanzas in a sequence called renga Bibliography Includes bibliographical references Notes Translated from the Japanese Print version record Subject Haiku -- Translations into English. Japanese poetry -- 1185-1600 -- Translations into English Japanese poetry -- Edo period, 1600-1868 -- Translations into English Renga -- Translations into English LITERARY CRITICISM -- Asian -- General. Haiku Japanese poetry Japanese poetry -- Edo period Renga Genre/Form poetry. Haiku Poetry Renga Translations Renga. Haiku. Poetry. Renga. Haïkus. Poésie. Form Electronic book Author Carter, Steven D., translator. LC no. 2010037030 ISBN 9780231527064 0231527063

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