Haiku before haiku
from the Renga masters to Bashō
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Author
Publication
2011 - Columbia University Press, New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
40,750 words, Guess
Page Count
163 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-139780231156486
- ISBN-139780231156479
- ISBN-139780231527064
- ISBN-100231156480
- ISBN-100231156472
and 7 more
- ISBN-100231527063
- Library of Congress Control Number2010037030
- OCLC Control Number659232491
- Better World Books9780231156486
- Better World Books9780231156479
- Better World Books9780231527064
- Open LibraryOL24495043M
Classifications
- DDC895.6/1008
- LCCPL782.E3 H24 2011
- LCCPL732.R43
Description
While the rise of the charmingly simple, brilliantly evocative haiku is often associated with the seventeenth-century Japanese poet Matsuo Basho, the form had already flourished for more than four hundred years before Basho even began to write. These early poems, known as hokku, are identical to haiku in syllable count and structure but function differently as a genre. Whereas each haiku is its own constellation of image and meaning, a hokku opens a series of linked, collaborative stanzas in a sequence called renga.
Subjects
Series Statement
- Translations from the Asian classics
Other Editions
- Haiku before haiku
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