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

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Asia Perspectives: History, Society, and CulturePublisher: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2013]Copyright date: ©2013Description: 1 online resource (240 p.) : ‹B›B&W Photos: ‹/B›14Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780231164887
  • 9780231535311
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 895.614 23
LOC classification:
  • PL811.A83 Z6776 2013
  • PL811.A83 Z6776 2015
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
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
Summary: 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 By reinvigorating these traditional forms, Shiki released them from outdated conventions and made them more responsive to newer trends in artistic expression.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.Using extensive readings of Shiki's own writings and accounts of the poet by his contemporaries and family, Donald Keene charts Shiki's revolutionary (and often contradictory) experiments with haiku and tanka, a dynamic process that made the survival of these traditional genres possible in a globalizing world. Keene particularly highlights random incidents and encounters in his impressionistic portrait of this tragically young life, moments that elicited significant shifts and discoveries in Shiki's work. The push and pull of a profoundly changing society is vividly felt in Keene's narrative, which also includes sharp observations of other recognizable characters, such as the famous novelist and critic Natsume Soseki. In addition, Keene reflects on his own personal relationship with Shiki's work, further developing the nuanced, deeply felt dimensions of its power.
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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

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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 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.Using extensive readings of Shiki's own writings and accounts of the poet by his contemporaries and family, Donald Keene charts Shiki's revolutionary (and often contradictory) experiments with haiku and tanka, a dynamic process that made the survival of these traditional genres possible in a globalizing world. Keene particularly highlights random incidents and encounters in his impressionistic portrait of this tragically young life, moments that elicited significant shifts and discoveries in Shiki's work. The push and pull of a profoundly changing society is vividly felt in Keene's narrative, which also includes sharp observations of other recognizable characters, such as the famous novelist and critic Natsume Soseki. In addition, Keene reflects on his own personal relationship with Shiki's work, further developing the nuanced, deeply felt dimensions of its power.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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