Dew on the grass : : the life and poetry of Kobayashi Issa /

Dew on the grass : : the life and poetry of Kobayashi Issa / / by Makoto Ueda.

This book sketches the life and poetry of Kobayashi Issa (1763-1828), a Japanese poet popularly known as one of the Three Pillars of Haiku. While Basho with his mystic asceticism and Buson with his romantic aestheticism immeasurably enriched the haiku tradition, it was Issa who, with his bold indivi...

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Superior document:Brill's Japanese studies library ; Volume 20
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Ueda, Makoto, 1931-2020,
Place / Publishing House:Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2004]
©2004
Year of Publication:2004
Language:English
Series:Brill's Japanese studies library ; Volume 20.
Physical Description:1 online resource.
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Table of Contents
  • List of Maps
  • Preface
  • Chapter One With an Orphaned Little Sparrow: 1763-1791
  • Chapter Two A Wanderer in the Western Provinces: 1791-1798
  • Chapter Three Of Sewers and Moonlight: 1798-1807
  • Chapter Four Flowers of the Thorn: 1807-1812
  • Chapter Five Through a Hole in the Shoji Screen: 1812-1816
  • Chapter Six The World of Dew: 1817-1820
  • Chapter Seven Snow in the Front Yard: 1820-1824
  • Chapter Eight Fearful of the Time to Come: 1824-1828
  • Appendix "A Stag": a Kasen Written by Issa and His Students
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Index of Issa's Hokku in English
  • Index of Issa's Hokku in Japanese
  • General Index
  • BRILL'S JAPANESE STUDIES LIBRARY.

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