日本の詩歌に見る四季と風景：俳句・和歌入門 Seasons and Landscapes in Japanese Poetry : An Introduction to Haiku and Waka

Marra, Michael F.

Edwin Mellen Press Ltd（2009/02発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 312 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780773449077
• DDC分類 895.610410832

基本説明

This work is an anthology of nearly 500 translated poems, many available in English for the first time, from the eighth to twentieth centuries. "... one of the most meticulously prepared, and most innovative, collections of translations ever published in English... by means of notes and commentaries, the reader will be able to grasp the various ways in which both the original and the subsequent Japanese readers of these poems have been able to derive complex and sophisticated levels of meaning from what may appear on the surface to be straightforward, rather lyrical statements about nature and the seasons." - Prof. J. Thomas Rimer.

Full Description

This work is an anthology of nearly 500 translated poems, many available in English for the first time, from the eighth to twentieth centuries. This is an anthology of Japanese verses, (31-syllable waka and 17-syllable haiku), from the eighth to the twentieth century, organized according to seasonal words. Seasonal words have played a fundamental role in the composition of classical Japanese poetry. Each of Japan's twenty - one poetic anthologies compiled by major poets along the centuries begins with the customary four rubrics of the seasons: spring, autumn, summer, and winter. Japanese poets devised specific associations related to the seasons' climate, flora, and fauna - associations that came to be strictly codified and followed by all court poets as well as by the revered masters of haiku Matsuo Basho (1644-1694) and Yosa Buson (1716-1783). To this day Japanese practitioners of classical poetic forms (waka/tanka and haiku) rely in their compositions on these codes, either by embracing them, subverting them, or by devising new, creative variations. The present publication is an introduction to the fascinating world of Japanese poetic associations.It will appeal to lovers of poetry as well as readers interested in Japanese literature, and the growing number of poets writing haiku in the West.