The Winter Sun Shines In :: a Life of Masaoka Shiki.

Rather than resist the vast social and cultural changes sweeping Japan in the nineteenth century, the poet Masaoka Shiki (1867?1902) incorporated new Western influences into his country's native haiku and tanka verse. By reinvigorating these traditional forms, Shiki freed them from outdated con...

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1. Verfasser: Keene, Donald
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York : Columbia University Press, 2013.
Schriftenreihe:Asia perspectives.
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Zusammenfassung:Rather than resist the vast social and cultural changes sweeping Japan in the nineteenth century, the poet Masaoka Shiki (1867?1902) incorporated new Western influences into his country's native haiku and tanka verse. By reinvigorating these traditional forms, Shiki freed them from outdated conventions and made them more responsive to newer trends in artistic expression. Altogether, his reforms made the haiku Japan's most influential modern cultural export. Based on extensive readings of Shiki's own writings and accounts of the poet by his contemporaries and family, Donald Keene ch.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (275 pages)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780231535311
0231535317

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