The Path of Flowering Thorn: Life and Poetry of Yosa Buson - Hardcover

Ueda, Makoto

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0804730423 ISBN 13: 9780804730426

Verlag: Stanford University Press, 2005

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Yosa Buson (1716-83) is a towering figure in the history of haiku. In reputation his only rival is Matsuo Basho, the very father of haiku, who almost singlehandedly elevated the seventeen-syllable verse to a mature and viable poetic form during the seventeenth century. While Buson considered Basho his mentor and actively participated in the Return to Basho movement, he was also aware of his distinctly different temperament and consciously attempted to cultivate it in his poetry. Compared with Basho, he was more receptive to bright colors and sensually appealing subjects and less reluctant to use them for creating a picturesque, dramatic, or even erotic effect. A painter by profession, Buson took delight in the natural beauty of colors and forms as well as in the artistic beauty of composition. A seeker of ideals that were more aesthetic than religious or moral, he freely let his imagination wander into a land of exotic beauty far removed from contemporary society, often evoking ancient China, Heian Japan, and the world of the supernatural.

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'This is a vintage yield of Ueda's work - a small book, deceptively simple, but an outstanding contribution to the appreciation of Japanese poetry and the narrow store of Western scholarship on Japan. It is not only the first English biography of Buson, in many ways the most rewarding of the haiku poets, but the finest introduction to his poetic art.' Howard Hibbett, Harvard University

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Stanford University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0804730423
• ISBN 13: 9780804730426
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 246
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar