| #1005526 in Books | Burton Watson | 1998-04-15 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x.36 x5.28l,.37 | File type: PDF | 136 pages | Masaoka Shiki Selected Poems||7 of 7 people found the following review helpful.| The Last Master|By texcritic|Masaoka Shiki is recognized broadly as the most recent of Japan's haiku masters, and the last of the "big four" -- Basho, Issa, Buson, and Shiki. He pioneered the influential realist technique in haiku known as "shasei", commonly translated as "sketch from life." He had a life tragically shortened by an excruciating tuberculosis that left him bedf||This new selection of [Shiki's] poems, from the hand of a distinguished scholar and translator, is particularly welcome.... It was Shiki, the short-lived critic, essayist and poet, who launched a major reform of haiku in the Meiji Era and revitalized the minia
Here are graceful and timeless poems by one of Japan's greatest modern writers, rendered by a master translator. Masaoka Shiki (1867–1902) is credited with modernizing Japan's two traditional verse forms, haiku and tanka. Born at a time of social and cultural change in Japan, Shiki welcomed the new influences from the West and responded to them by reinvigorating the native haiku and tanka forms. He freed them from outdated conventions, made them viable for artistic...
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