Author: 石川啄木
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
The Poetry of Ishikawa Takuboku. [Poems with an English Translation.] By H.H. Honda. [With a Portrait.].
Author: Takuboku ISHIKAWA (pseud.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 100
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Romaji Diary and Sad Toys
Author: Takuboku Ishikawa
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
ISBN: 146290078X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
The novella Romaji Diary represents the first instance of a Japanese writer using romaji (roman script) to tell stories in a way that could not be told in kana or kanji. Sad Toys is a collection of 194 Tanka, the traditional 31 syllable poems that are evocative of Japan's misty past and its tentative steps into the wider world. The publication of this edition of two of Takuboku Ishikawa's finest and most popular works together in translation has proven to be interesting from various standpoints. Romaji Diary and the collection of tanka, Sad Toys, while different forms of literature, are not as dissimilar as they appear on the surface. Takuboku himself wrote that poetry "must be an exact report, an honest diary, of the changes in a man’s emotional life," and these tanka are indeed as much a diary as a standard prose one. Both works reflect clearly, honestly, and poignantly the emotions and philosophy of a complex individual living in a time of profound change in Japan. Romaji Diary is here presented in full in English for the first time.
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
ISBN: 146290078X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
The novella Romaji Diary represents the first instance of a Japanese writer using romaji (roman script) to tell stories in a way that could not be told in kana or kanji. Sad Toys is a collection of 194 Tanka, the traditional 31 syllable poems that are evocative of Japan's misty past and its tentative steps into the wider world. The publication of this edition of two of Takuboku Ishikawa's finest and most popular works together in translation has proven to be interesting from various standpoints. Romaji Diary and the collection of tanka, Sad Toys, while different forms of literature, are not as dissimilar as they appear on the surface. Takuboku himself wrote that poetry "must be an exact report, an honest diary, of the changes in a man’s emotional life," and these tanka are indeed as much a diary as a standard prose one. Both works reflect clearly, honestly, and poignantly the emotions and philosophy of a complex individual living in a time of profound change in Japan. Romaji Diary is here presented in full in English for the first time.
A Handful of Sand
Author: Takuboku Ishikawa
Publisher: Greenwood
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Publisher: Greenwood
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
The Poetry of Ishikawa Takuboku
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
The First Modern Japanese
Author: Donald Keene
Publisher: Asia Perspectives: History, Society, and Culture
ISBN: 9780231179720
Category : Poets, Japanese
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
A biography of Japanese tanka master Ishikawa Takuboku, who pioneered an unmistakably modern poetic style.
Publisher: Asia Perspectives: History, Society, and Culture
ISBN: 9780231179720
Category : Poets, Japanese
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
A biography of Japanese tanka master Ishikawa Takuboku, who pioneered an unmistakably modern poetic style.
The Poetry of Ishikawa Takuboku
Author: 石川啄木
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Japanese poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Japanese poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
The Poetry of Ishikawa Takuboku
Author: Takuboku Ishikawa
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry, Japanese
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry, Japanese
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
The Poetry of Ishikawa Takuboku
Author: 石川啄木
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
On Knowing Oneself Too Well
Author: Ishikawa Takuboku
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780615345628
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
At the turn of the twentieth-century, Ishikawa Takuboku took Japan's ancient, highly formal poetic tradition and turned it to the purposes of an impassioned sensibility in a rapidly modernizing world. Beginning with poems rich in childhood sorrow and wonder, he progressed in his short life to a poetry of searing objectivity and miraculous self-knowing. Before dying of tuberculosis, Takuboku achieved in his poems a kind of Buddhist awakening, observing by their means the emptiness of self in a riveting and heartbreaking world. On Knowing Oneself Too Well offers, in Tamae K. Prindle's lucid translations, the most comprehensive selection available in English of this vital modern poet. "Ishikawa died at twenty-six, lived long enough to change his name to woodpecker, died young, lived long enough to take an old form, tanka, and make it new, died young, lived long enough to read foreign books and taste foreign wine, died young but had chance to sing himself a long song, Whitman's eyes turned humbly, fiercely outward, careful what he sees, died young, lived long enough to build a body of poems that moves me the way weather does, birds and shabby autumn trees and all the other sorts of things that die young and make a spectacle of themselves, funny reminders, revelations, quiet ecstasies. Died young and left poems of a wry beauty, given to us here in quiet, affectionate English translation." -Robert Kelly "The poet as woodpecker indeed: Ishikawa Takuboku's clear pecked rhythms & images are a perfect delight. Are they large rain drops sparingly tapping the drum-taut paper of a shoji-screen or the poet's tensed fingers rapping on his tablet? The reader sits & listens & looks and the world grows quiet except for that nano-perception that now begins to fill the world. The small daily pain or pleasure, exquisitely brought over into the simplest of words: and yet, all the world is thus said." -Pierre Joris
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780615345628
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
At the turn of the twentieth-century, Ishikawa Takuboku took Japan's ancient, highly formal poetic tradition and turned it to the purposes of an impassioned sensibility in a rapidly modernizing world. Beginning with poems rich in childhood sorrow and wonder, he progressed in his short life to a poetry of searing objectivity and miraculous self-knowing. Before dying of tuberculosis, Takuboku achieved in his poems a kind of Buddhist awakening, observing by their means the emptiness of self in a riveting and heartbreaking world. On Knowing Oneself Too Well offers, in Tamae K. Prindle's lucid translations, the most comprehensive selection available in English of this vital modern poet. "Ishikawa died at twenty-six, lived long enough to change his name to woodpecker, died young, lived long enough to take an old form, tanka, and make it new, died young, lived long enough to read foreign books and taste foreign wine, died young but had chance to sing himself a long song, Whitman's eyes turned humbly, fiercely outward, careful what he sees, died young, lived long enough to build a body of poems that moves me the way weather does, birds and shabby autumn trees and all the other sorts of things that die young and make a spectacle of themselves, funny reminders, revelations, quiet ecstasies. Died young and left poems of a wry beauty, given to us here in quiet, affectionate English translation." -Robert Kelly "The poet as woodpecker indeed: Ishikawa Takuboku's clear pecked rhythms & images are a perfect delight. Are they large rain drops sparingly tapping the drum-taut paper of a shoji-screen or the poet's tensed fingers rapping on his tablet? The reader sits & listens & looks and the world grows quiet except for that nano-perception that now begins to fill the world. The small daily pain or pleasure, exquisitely brought over into the simplest of words: and yet, all the world is thus said." -Pierre Joris
Modern Japanese Tanka
Author: Makoto Ueda
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231104333
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
His introduction gives an excellent overview of the development of tanka in the last one hundred years.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231104333
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
His introduction gives an excellent overview of the development of tanka in the last one hundred years.