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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822198103321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Columbia University Press, c2011

ISBN

1-282-99042-X

9786612990427

0-231-52706-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (176 p.)

Collana

Translations from the Asian classics

Altri autori (Persone)

CarterSteven D

Disciplina

895.6/1008

Soggetti

Haiku

Japanese poetry - 1185-1600

Japanese poetry - Edo period, 1600-1868

Renga

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; The Poems; The Nun Abutsu; Mushō; Zenna; Reizei Tamesuke; Musō Soseki; Junkaku; Gusai; Nijō Yoshimoto; Shūa; Sōa; Asayama Bontō; Mitsuhiro; Fushiminomiya Sadafusa; Chiun; Takayama Sōzei; Gyōjo; Nōa; Shinkei; Senjun; Sugiwara Sōi; Sōgi; Hino Tomiko; Emperor Go-Tsuchimikado; Ōuchi Masahiro; Inkō; Shōhaku; Sakurai Motosuke; Sōchō; Inawashiro Kensai; Sanjōnishi Sanetaka; Sōseki; Reizei Tamekazu; Tani Sōboku; Shūkei; Sōyō; Arakida Moritake; Shōkyū; Ikkadō Jōa; Sanjōnishi Kin'eda; Miyoshi Chōkei; Satomura Jōha; Satomura Shōshitsu; Oka Kōsetsu; Hosokawa Yūsai

Satomura GenjōMatsudaira Ietada; Shōtaku; Matsunaga Teitoku; Wife of Mitsusada; Miura Tamenori; Nishiyama Sōin; Nōjun; Konishi Raizan; Matsuo Bashō; Bibliography

Sommario/riassunto

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