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

Publication Info. New York : Columbia University Press, [2011]
©2011

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 163 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Translations from the Asian classics
Translations from the Asian classics.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Machine generated contents note: Poems -- 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. Under the mastery of Basho, hokku first g.
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Language Translated from the Japanese.
Subject Haiku -- Translations into English.
Haiku.
Japanese poetry -- 1185-1600 -- Translations into English.
Japanese poetry.
Chronological Term 1185-1600
Subject Japanese poetry -- Edo period, 1600-1868 -- Translations into English.
Renga -- Translations into English.
Renga.
Chronological Term 1185-1868
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Translations.
Added Author Carter, Steven D.
Other Form: Print version: Haiku before haiku. New York : Columbia University Press, ©2011 (DLC) 2010037030
ISBN 9780231527064 (electronic book)
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9780231156486 (cloth ; acid-free paper)
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0231156480
0231156472