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Excellent...Anyone interested in Shiki should consult [this] by all means. -Burton Watson
These poems--more than a hundred haiku, several tanka, and three kanshi--are arranged chronologically within each genre, revealing the development of Masaoka Shiki's (1867-1902) art and the seamless way in which he wove his life and illness into his poetry. Watson's introduction deftly explores the course of Shiki's life and places him in relation to Japanese history, literature and thought.
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Masaoka Shiki (1867-1902) is often listed as the last of the great haiku masters - following Basho, Buson, and Issa. However, Shiki remains unique in his distinctly modernist approach, taking influence from Western writers and artists, reflecting changes within his own society. In his Outline of Haikai, published in 1895, Shiki stresses "copying things as they are," foreshadowing Imagism's "direct treatment of the thing." In the same text, Shiki writes about the importance of "combining reverie (k?s?) and realism (shajitsu)," allowing for a kind of reflective minimalism - sketches, both exterior and interior."I go / you stay / two autumns"In recent years, Shiki's work has found a number of c...
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Rather than resist the vast changes sweeping Japan in the 19th century, the poet Masaoka Shiki (1867-1902) incorporated new Western influences into his country's native haiku and tanka verse. Based on extensive readings of Shiki's own writings and accounts of the poet by his contemporaries and family, Donald Keene Charts Shiki's distinctive (and often contradictory) experiments with haiku and tanka, a dynamic process that made the survival of these genres possible in a globalizing world.
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