Pomegranate Communications | ISBN:0764956108 | File Type: PDF, 80 pages | File size: 59.Mb | Sep. 1st, 2010
Asian Poetry: Japanese Art and Poetry The gracef evocative haiku featured here were composed by the renowned Japanese haiku masters of the past four hundred years including Matsuo Bash Taniguchi Buson and Kobayashi Issa The deceptively simple poemsrendered in English with Japanese calligraphies and transliterationsare paired with exquisite eighteenth or nineteenth century paintings and ukiyo e prints and twentieth century shin hanga woodcuts from the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria Canada Haiku Japanese Art and oetry presents thirty five pairs of poems and images organized seasonally The Introduction s the origin and development of haiku the lives of the most famous poets and the obstacles faced when translating the concise yet complex lines
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