How did a girl from the provinces, meant to do nothing more than run the family store, become a bold and daring poet whose life and work helped change the idea of love in modern Japan? Embracing the Firebird is the first book-length study in English of the early life and work of Yosano Akiko (1879-1942), the most famous post-classical woman poet of Japan. It follows Akiko, who was born into a merchant family in the port city of Sakai near Osaka, from earliest childhood to her twenties, charting the slow process of development before the seemingly sudden metamorphosis.
Akiko's later...
How did a girl from the provinces, meant to do nothing more than run the family store, become a bold and daring poet whose life and work helped cha...
Poetry. Asian Studies. Translated from the Japanese by Janine Beichman. "One of Ooka's virtues was that he was not an intellectual, someone who has forgotten that human beings are more important than ideas, that human beings take priorityover everything. This poet knows, in the deepest sense, that human relationships rest on the relation of human beings to nature and to the universe. It is not difficult to see traces of the surrealist influence that colores Ooka's youth. But in contrast to many other Japanese poets, Ooka was never a blind worshipper of anything imported. Ooka is convinced...
Poetry. Asian Studies. Translated from the Japanese by Janine Beichman. "One of Ooka's virtues was that he was not an intellectual, someone who has fo...
Poetry. Asian Studies. 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. "Ooka Makoto is a distinguished poet. He is also a major critic of poetry, perhaps the finest in Japan today. For this anthology he has searched through the whole range of Japanese poetry. Janine Beichman has been exceptionally successful in conveying not only the sense but the beauty...
Poetry. Asian Studies. Translated by Janine Beichman, with Japanese originals in both kanji-kana and romaji versions. An ideal tool for the study of t...
How did a girl from the provinces, meant to do nothing more than run the family store, become a bold and daring poet whose life and work helped change the idea of love in modern Japan? Embracing the Firebird is the first book-length study in English of the early life and work of Yosano Akiko (1879-1942), the most famous post-classical woman poet of Japan. It follows Akiko, who was born into a merchant family in the port city of Sakai near Osaka, from earliest childhood to her twenties, charting the slow process of development before the seemingly sudden metamorphosis.
Akiko's later...
How did a girl from the provinces, meant to do nothing more than run the family store, become a bold and daring poet whose life and work helped cha...
