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, from
earliest childhood to her twenties, charting the slow process of
development before the seemingly sudden metamorphosis.
Akiko's later poetry has now begun to win long-overdue
recognition, but in terms of literary history the impact of
Midaregami (Tangled Hair, 1901), her first book, still overshadows
everything else she wrote, for it brought individualism to
traditional tanka poetry with a tempestuous force and passion found
in no other work of the period. Embracing the Firebird traces
Akiko's emotional and artistic development up to the publication of
this seminal work, which became a classic of modern Japanese poetry
and marked the starting point of Akiko's forty-year-long career as
a writer. It then examines Tangled Hair itself, the characteristics
that make it a unified work of art, and its originality.
The study throughout includes Janine Beichman's elegant
translations of poems by Yosano Akiko (both those included in
Tangled Hair and those not), as well as poems by contemporaries
such as Yosano Tekkan, Yamakawa Tomiko, and others.
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