History of Haiku in Japan

Author: Peng Enhua
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Publish Date: 2004-04-01
Features: Haiku is a form of poetry in Japan. This book is a specialized work on the history of haiku in China after the liberation. It concisely introduces the origin and development of Japanese haiku, provides detailed accounts of the haiku creations and theories of prominent haiku masters such as Matsuo Bashō, Masaoka Shikibu, Kobayashi Issa, Tsubouchi Shinkō, Kōno Shigeharu, and Takahama Kikoo, as well as the state of modern Japanese haiku circles. The book also offers artistic appreciations of many well-known haikus, making it rich in content and fluent in language. At the end of the book, there is an appendix with over a thousand famous classical and modern Japanese haikus (in Japanese and Chinese) and nearly forty illustrations.