| Description |
1 online resource (275 pages). |
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| Series |
Asia Perspectives: History, Society, and Culture
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Asia Perspectives: History, Society, and Culture.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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 By reinvigorating these traditional forms, Shiki freed them from outdated conventions and made them more responsive to newer trends in artistic expression.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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Masaoka, Shiki, 1867-1902.
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Masaoka, Shiki, 1867-1902. |
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Keene, Donald. Winter Sun Shines In : A Life of Masaoka Shiki. New York : Columbia University Press, ©2013 9780231164887 |
| ISBN |
9780231535311 (electronic book) |
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0231535317 (electronic book) |
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9780231164887 (cloth ; acid-free paper) |
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0231164882 (cloth ; acid-free paper) |
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