Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Note on the Text
Introduction
1 Ezra Pound’s Japan
Part 1: Pound and Hokku
2 Herbert Spencer’s ‘Minor Image’, Masaoka Shiki, and the Meiji Reinvention of Haiku
3 Symphonies in White: Basil Hall Chamberlain and the Introduction of ‘Hokku’ into English
4 Pound’s ‘“Metro” Hokku’
Part 2: Pound and No
5 ‘Nobody Thought No Would Rise Again’: Umewaka Minoru and the Meiji Revival of No
6 Ernest Fenollosa’s ‘Single Image’ and the Introduction of No into English
7 ‘One of the Great Arts of the World’: Pound’s First No Translations
8 'Growing Together': Pound's Japanese Friends, No, and the Genesis of The Cantos
9 ‘The Closest Parallel to My Thought’: Pound’s No Plays and Accomplishments
Part 3: No and The Cantos
10 ‘Grow with the Pines of Ise’: Pound’s Early Cantos and No
11 ‘A Treasure Like Nothing We Have in the Occident’: Pound’s Wartime Cantos and No
12 ‘The Light Sings Eternal’: No’s Place in the Paradiso of Pound’s Later Cantos
Bibliography
Index of (Published) Works by Pound
Index of Names