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American literature --- Drama --- Hansberry, Lorraine --- Criticism and interpretation --- Hansberry (lorraine), 1930-1965
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A court lady of the Heian era, an early modern philologist, a novelist of the Meiji period, and a physicist at Tokyo University. What do they have in common, besides being Japanese? They all wrote zuihitsu-a uniquely Japanese literary genre encompassing features of the nonfiction or personal essay and miscellaneous musings. For sheer range of subject matter and breadth of perspective, the zuihitsu is unrivaled in the Japanese literary tradition, which may explain why few examples have been translated into English.The Columbia Anthology of Japanese Essays presents a representative selection of more than one hundred zuihitsu from a range of historical periods written by close to fifty authors-from well-known figures, such as Matsuo Basho, Natsume Soseki, and Koda Aya, to such writers as Tachibana Nankei and Dekune Tatsuro, whose works appear here for the first time in English. Writers speak on the experience of coming down with a cold, the aesthetics of tea, the physiology and psychology of laughter, the demands of old age, standards of morality, the way to raise children, the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923, the thoughts that accompany sleeplessness, the anxiety of undergoing surgery, and the unexpected benefits of training a myna bird to say "Thank you." These essays also provide moving descriptions of snowy landscapes, foggy London, the famous cherry blossoms of Ueno Park, and the appeal of rainy vistas, and relate the joys and troubles of everyone from desperate samurai to filial children to ailing cats.
J5940 --- J5630 --- J5910 --- J5920 --- Japan: Literature -- modern fiction and prose -- essays, columns, social and cultural criticism --- Japan: Literature -- literary diaries, letters and accounts of travel --- Japan: Literature -- fiction and prose -- anthologies, selections, series, sōsho --- Japan: Literature -- premodern fiction and prose ( -1868) --- E-books --- Japanese essays --- LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays. --- Japanese literature
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The medieval Buddhist poet-monk Tonna (1289-1372) was regarded as the leading poet of his day and a prominent scholar and critic. Despite his commoner status, he was assigned the task of acting as compiler for an imperial anthology of poetry and counted a number of prominent courtiers among his students and patrons. And yet his works, which remained required reading for virtually all serious poets in Japan for five hundred years after his death, have until recently received little scholarly attention in either Japan or the West. This anthology contains translations of 134 of Tonna's uta (the classical poetic form) and 16 linked verse couplets (renga) from his Grass Hut Collection and selections from a work of prose criticism, From a Frog at the Bottom of a Well, along with an introduction and explanatory notes, a glossary of important names and places, and a list of sources for the poems.
LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Asian / Japanese. --- Tonʼa, --- Ton'a,
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Japanese poetry --- Waka --- Translations into English. --- Translations into English.
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While the rise of the charmingly simple, brilliantly evocative haiku is often associated with the seventeenth-century Japanese poet Matsuo Basho, the form had already flourished for more than four hundred years before Basho even began to write. These early poems, known as hokku, are identical to haiku in syllable count and structure but function differently as a genre. Whereas each haiku is its own constellation of image and meaning, a hokku opens a series of linked, collaborative stanzas in a sequence called renga.
Haiku --- Japanese poetry --- Japanese poetry --- Renga
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Statesmen --- Scholars --- Poets, Japanese --- Ichijō, Kanera, --- Japan --- Politics and government
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Japanese poetry --- Renga --- History and criticism --- History and criticism --- Shōhaku, --- Sōcho, --- Sōgi, --- Sōgi, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Criticism and interpretation.
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