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Haiku: Japanese Art and Poetry
Haiku: Japanese Art and Poetry | Judith Patt
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The graceful, 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 Poetry presents thirty-five pairs of poems and images, organized seasonally. The Introduction details 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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IndoorDame
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This is a phenomenal anthology! Each piece is written in traditional Japanese calligraphy, English translation, & a phonetic English rendering of the kana. Each is also paired with a traditional woodblock print & having the art & poetry there together made me notice new things in each. There is a succinct introduction that in less than 7 pages taught me things about the haiku form and the lineage of haiku masters represented here I hadn‘t known.

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CherylC
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This book is a beautiful work of art in itself.