Shiki Masaoka

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Songs from a Bamboo Village: Selected Tanka from Takenosato Uta

Shiki Masaoka

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Nearly one hundred years after his death at age thirty-five, Shiki Masaoka remains one of the most important figures in modern Japanese poetry. Although perhaps best known for his haiku poetry, Shiki revitalized the tanka form -- unrhymed verse of five lines containing 5, 7, 5, 7, and 7 syllables, respectively. This volume includes the poems in the original Japanese script with romaji renderings, skilled, precise translations, and reference notes containing invaluable biographical, historical, and cultural information.

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Other editions: Softcover - 1998, Hardcover - 1998, 1996, 1973, 1973