Embracing the Firebird: Yosano Akiko and the Birth of the Female Voice in Modern Japanese Poetry

by Janine Beichman

Book Overview

How did a girl from the provinces, meant to do nothing more than run the family store, become a bold and daring poet whose life and work helped change the idea of love in modern Japan? Embracing the Firebird is the first book-length study in English of the early life and work of Yosano Akiko (1879-1942), the most famous post-classical woman poet of Japan. It follows Akiko, who was born into a merchant family in the port city of Sakai near Osaka,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824823478
• ISBN13: 9780824823474
• Release Date: June 2002
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.0"