{"product_id":"three-women-poets-of-modern-japan-akiko-yosano-akiko-yanagiwara-takeko-kuj_","title":"Three Women Poets of Modern Japan: Akiko Yosano, Akiko Yanagiwara, Takeko Kuj_","description":"\u003cp\u003eAkiko Yosano, Akiko Yanagiwara, Takeko Kuj_: Three Women Poets of Japan\u003cbr\u003e\nPublic Domain Poets #13 | Publicdomainpoets.com\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Three Women Poets of Modern Japan' (1927), with additional material, including over 100 tanka by Akiko Yosano (1878-1942), Akiko Yanagiwara (a.k.a. 'White Lotus', 1885-1967), and Takeko Kuj_ (1887- 1928), selected and translated into English by Glenn Hughes and Yazan T. Iwasaki. New edition designed and edited by Dick Whyte.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe heart of a woman of thirty\u003cbr\u003e\nIs a measure of fire,\u003cbr\u003e\nHaving neither shade, nor smoke,\u003cbr\u003e\nNor sound.\u003cbr\u003e\nIt is a round sacred sun\u003cbr\u003e\nIn the sky at evening;\u003cbr\u003e\nSilently,\u003cbr\u003e\nPenetratingly,\u003cbr\u003e\nIt burnsÑburns.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n              \u003cp\u003e-'Dance Garments', Akiko Yosano\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eYosano, Yanagiwara, \u0026amp; Kuj_ were all leading poets in the 'new tanka' movement in Japan in the early-1900s, following Masaoka Shiki's reforms. When translating their work, Hughes and Iwasaki drew on contemporary 'free verse' poets for inspiration, which had themselves drawn on late-1800s and early-1900s translations of tanka and haikai as models; ÒFree verse poems, as brief as possible, not too musical nor yet too prosaic, seem best to convey to Western ears the sense and effect of the original.Ó\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith the redness of the setting sun\u003cbr\u003e\nI flame,\u003cbr\u003e\nThinking of you.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHeaven and earth,\u003cbr\u003e\nCloud and water,\u003cbr\u003e\nLife and death:\u003cbr\u003e\nThere is neither end nor beginningÑ\u003cbr\u003e\nThat is all I feel sure of.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n              \u003cp\u003e-2 tanka, Akiko Yanagiwara\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt is possible Hughes and Iwasaki were also influenced by Takuboku Ishikawa, a well-known Japanese tanka poet who adopted a 3-line approach to waka in the early-1900s, and Yone Noguchi and Jun Fujita, who pioneered 4-line English-language tanka, in the mid-1910s and early-1920s.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eI am wrapped in silk\u003cbr\u003e\nThe color of flame,\u003cbr\u003e\nBut my bodyÑmy bosomÑ\u003cbr\u003e\nIs cold.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSpring night.\u003cbr\u003e\nSilence.\u003cbr\u003e\nThe rustle of my dress\u003cbr\u003e\nFalling to the floor.\u003cbr\u003e\nSilence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n              \u003cp\u003e-2 tanka, Takeko Kuj_\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePublic Domain Press is dedicated to producing new editions of out-of-print poetry, particularly with regard to compressed \u0026amp; fragmented 'free verse' from the late-1800s \u0026amp; early-1900s. All poems start as facsimiles - to preserve original fonts - which are cleaned up, edited, and spaciously laid-out, adorned with illustrations, and ornaments from the books and magazines they originally appeared in. These are not simply \"reprints\" of previously existing books, but newly crafted collections, lovingly edited from public domain material, for the serious poetry lover.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksWholesale","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44221188112545,"sku":"9.78199E+12","price":30.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0462\/1120\/3233\/files\/ryn2rr-front-shortedge-384.jpg?v=1714517494","url":"https:\/\/bookswholesale.myshopify.com\/products\/three-women-poets-of-modern-japan-akiko-yosano-akiko-yanagiwara-takeko-kuj_","provider":"BooksWholesale","version":"1.0","type":"link"}