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Authors: Makoto Ueda (Editor), Makoto Ueda
ISBN-13: 9780231104333, ISBN-10: 0231104332
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Date Published: August 1996
Edition: 1st Edition
MAKOTO UEDA is Professor of Japanese at Stanford University.
Like haiku, tanka is a short, classical verse form that has attracted considerable attention in this century. This is the first collection of modern tanka available in English.
Owing to masterful editing and translating by Makoto Ueda, the beauty of the original poetry shines forth throughout this volume.
Preface | ||
Introduction | ||
Yosano Tekkan (1873-1935) | 1 | |
Masaoka Shiki (1867-1902) | 13 | |
Mori Ogai (1862-1922) | 25 | |
Yosano Akiko (1878-1942) | 37 | |
Ishikawa Takuboku (1886-1912) | 49 | |
Saito Mokichi (1882-1953) | 61 | |
Kitahara Hakushu (1885-1942) | 73 | |
Shaku Choku (1887-1953) | 85 | |
Toki Zenmaro (1885-1980) | 97 | |
Okamoto Kanoko (1889-1939) | 109 | |
Miyazawa Kenji (1896-1932) | 121 | |
Okuma Nobuyuki (1893-1977) | 133 | |
Maekawa Samio (1903-1990) | 145 | |
Saito Fumi (b. 1909) | 157 | |
Miya Shuji (1911-1986) | 169 | |
Kondo Yoshimi (b. 1913) | 181 | |
Tsukamoto Kunio (b. 1922) | 193 | |
Nakajo Fumiko (1922-1954) | 205 | |
Sasaki Yukitsuna (b. 1938) | 217 | |
Tawara Machi (b. 1962) | 229 | |
Selected Bibliography | 241 | |
Copyright Acknowledgments | 253 |