The Winter Sun Shines In : : A Life of Masaoka Shiki / / Donald Keene.

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

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2013]
©2013
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
Series:Asia Perspectives: History, Society, and Culture
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Physical Description:1 online resource (240 p.) :; ‹B›B&W Photos: ‹/B›14.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • 1. The Early Years
  • 2. Student Days
  • 3. The Song of the Hototogisu
  • 4. Shiki the Novelist
  • 5. Cathay and the Way Thither
  • 6. Sketches from Life
  • 7. Hototogisu
  • 8. Shiki and the Tanka
  • 9. Shintaishi and Kanshi
  • 10. Random Essays ( Zuihitsu ), 1
  • 11. Random Essays, 2
  • 12. The Last Days
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index