The Winter Sun Shines in: A Life of Masaoka Shiki

by Donald Keene

Book Overview

Rather than resist the vast social and cultural changes sweeping Japan in the nineteenth century, the poet Masaoka Shiki (1867-1902) instead incorporated new Western influences into his country's native haiku and tanka verse. By reinvigorating these traditional forms, Shiki released them from outdated conventions and made them more responsive to newer trends in artistic expression. Altogether, his reforms made the haiku Japan's most influential...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231164890
• ISBN13: 9780231164894
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.0" x 8.0"