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The Winter Sun Shines In - A Life of Masaoka Shiki (Paperback)
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The Winter Sun Shines In - A Life of Masaoka Shiki (Paperback)
Series: Asia Perspectives: History, Society, and Culture
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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forms, Shiki released them from outdated conventions and made them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 modern cultural
export. Using extensive readings of Shiki's own writings and
accounts of the poet by his contemporaries and family, Donald Keene
charts Shiki's revolutionary (and often contradictory) experiments
with haiku and tanka, a dynamic process that made the survival of
these traditional genres possible in a globalizing world. Keene
particularly highlights random incidents and encounters in his
impressionistic portrait of this tragically young life, moments
that elicited significant shifts and discoveries in Shiki's work.
The push and pull of a profoundly changing society is vividly felt
in Keene's narrative, which also includes sharp observations of
other recognizable characters, such as the famous novelist and
critic Natsume Soseki. In addition, Keene reflects on his own
personal relationship with Shiki's work, further developing the
nuanced, deeply felt dimensions of its power.
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