Genre: Poetry
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The poetry and poetics of ancient Japan
It was the noblewomen of the 10th and 11th centuries who freed Japanese literature from the domination of formal Chinese writing to create a poetry shaped by spoken Japanese. Many centuries later it was again women, this time courtesans and prostitutes, who through popular song liberated a poetry more and more restricted by increasingly rarified…
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Demented flute : selected poems, 1967-1986
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100 Kokinshu selections
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A poet’s anthology : the range of Japanese poetry
Translated by Janine Beichman, with Japanese originals in both kanji-kana and romaji versions. An ideal tool for the study of the Japanese poetic tradition by an internationally esteemed former president of PEN Japan, the author of over 19 collections of poetry and over 180 other works.
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I am alive : the tanka poems of Goto Miyoko, 1898-1978
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One hundred senryu
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Celebration in darkness : selected poems of Yoshioka Minoru. Strangers’ sky : selected poems of Iijima Koichi
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A thousand steps, and more : selected poems and prose 1964-1984
Anyone who has ever heard the extraordinary Yoshimasu Gozo’s mesmerizing readings will never forget him. Yoshimasu breaks away from linear pseudorealism to offer a range of alternative voices and models which challenge our postmodernist passivity.
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100 Shinkokinshu selections
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Anthology of modern Japanese poets