Love Poems from the Japanese

Love Poems from the Japanese

Author: Sam Hamill

Publisher: Shambhala Publications

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 1570629765

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An introduction by the poet and translator Sam Hamill, the editor of this collection, and short biographies of the poets are included."--BOOK JACKET.


Only Companion

Only Companion

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Publisher: Shambhala Publications

Published: 2006-11-14

Total Pages: 140

ISBN-13: 0834824973

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Written by court princesses, exiled officials, Zen priests, and recluses, the 150 poems translated here represent the rich diversity of Japan’s poetic tradition. Varying in tone from the sensuous and erotic to the profoundly spiritual, each poem captures a sense of the poignant beauty and longing known only in the fleeting experience of the moment. The translator has selected these five-line tanka—one of the great traditional verse forms of Japanese literature—from sources ranging from the classical imperial anthologies of the eighth and tenth centuries to works of the early twentieth century.


Japanese Love Poems

Japanese Love Poems

Author: Evan Bates

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 2012-06-20

Total Pages: 114

ISBN-13: 0486145662

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This original selection of verses from the time-honored collection of Japanese poetry reflects the many facets of love, from paeans to conjugal love to descriptions of fierce competition for spouses. Text is in English only.


One Hundred Poems from the Chinese

One Hundred Poems from the Chinese

Author: Kenneth Rexroth

Publisher: New Directions Publishing

Published: 1956

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13: 9780811201803

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The lyrical world of Chinese poetry in faithful translations by Kenneth Rexroth.


Ariake

Ariake

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Publisher: Chronicle Books

Published: 2000-04

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13: 9780811828130

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Books like Arthur Golden's Memoirs of a Geisha have signaled the current fascination with the discreetly private side of Japan during the evocative age of dynasties and imperial rule. Ariake, a stunning gift book, offers up the passionate words of the elegant and cultured female courtesans of ancient Japan. It was customary in the late 1st and early 2nd century Japanese courts for women to express their hearts' greatest desires and sorrows through poetry. Translated and compiled in Ariake, these lyrical and poignant verses of seduction, love, and lament are both simple and extraordinary. Illustrated throughout with gorgeous collages that evoke the color, fabric, and textures of the East, Ariake brings to life the subtle eloquence of ancient Japan and the universal passions and torments of love. Ariake is an exquisite and timeless volume of the heart's longing.


Written on the Sky: Poems from the Japanese

Written on the Sky: Poems from the Japanese

Author: Eliot Weinberger

Publisher: New Directions Publishing

Published: 2009-04-21

Total Pages: 96

ISBN-13: 0811218376

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“Rexroth’s readings from the Japanese master poets are breathtaking in their simplicity and clarity.”—The New York Times I go out of the darkness Onto a road of darkness Lit only by the far off Moon on the edge of the mountains. —Izumi Shikobu Over the years, thousands of readers have discovered the beauty of classic Japanese poetry through the superb English versions by the great American poet Kenneth Rexroth. Mostly haiku, these poems range from the classical and medieval to modern poetry, with an emphasis on folk songs and love lyrics. Because women played such an outstanding role in Japanese literature, included here are selections from their work, including the contemporary, deeply sensuous Marichiko. This elegant, beautifully designed gift book of poems spanning many centuries presents the original texts in romanji, the transliteration into the Western alphabet.


Ten Thousand Leaves

Ten Thousand Leaves

Author: Anonymous

Publisher: Harry N. Abrams

Published: 1988-06-06

Total Pages: 100

ISBN-13: 9780879512408

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The Manyoshu is the great literary work of eighth century Japan, a collection comprising work from more than four hundred writers. Its richness and nobility of sentiments have made the Manyoshu an object of literary fascination for centuries. Ten Thousand Leaves is a selection of love poems from this magnificent anthology,selected and translated by world renowned scholar Harold Wright and complemented by spectacular period art.


Japanese Death Poems

Japanese Death Poems

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Publisher: Tuttle Publishing

Published: 1998-04-15

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 146291649X

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"A wonderful introduction the Japanese tradition of jisei, this volume is crammed with exquisite, spontaneous verse and pithy, often hilarious, descriptions of the eccentric and committed monastics who wrote the poems." --Tricycle: The Buddhist Review Although the consciousness of death is, in most cultures, very much a part of life, this is perhaps nowhere more true than in Japan, where the approach of death has given rise to a centuries-old tradition of writing jisei, or the "death poem." Such a poem is often written in the very last moments of the poet's life. Hundreds of Japanese death poems, many with a commentary describing the circumstances of the poet's death, have been translated into English here, the vast majority of them for the first time. Yoel Hoffmann explores the attitudes and customs surrounding death in historical and present-day Japan and gives examples of how these have been reflected in the nation's literature in general. The development of writing jisei is then examined--from the longing poems of the early nobility and the more "masculine" verses of the samurai to the satirical death poems of later centuries. Zen Buddhist ideas about death are also described as a preface to the collection of Chinese death poems by Zen monks that are also included. Finally, the last section contains three hundred twenty haiku, some of which have never been assembled before, in English translation and romanized in Japanese.