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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 895.6132
EAN: 9780804730426
Edition: illustrated edition
ISBN: 0804730423
Label: Stanford University Press
Manufacturer: Stanford University Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 226
Publication Date: 1998-07
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Studio: Stanford University Press
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Yosa Buson (1716-83) is a towering figure in the history of haiku. In reputation his only rival is Matsuo Basho, the very father of haiku, who almost singlehandedly elevated the seventeen-syllable verse to a mature and viable poetic form during the seventeenth century. While Buson considered Basho his mentor and actively participated in the Return to Basho movement, he was also aware of his distinctly different temperament and consciously attempted to cultivate it in his poetry. Compared with Basho, he was more receptive to bright colors and sensually appealing subjects and less reluctant to use them for creating a picturesque, dramatic, or even erotic effect. A painter by profession, Buson took delight in the natural beauty of colors and forms as well as in the artistic beauty of composition. A seeker of ideals that were more aesthetic than religious or moral, he freely let his imagination wander into a land of exotic beauty far removed from contemporary society, often evoking ancient China, Heian Japan, and the world of the supernatural.
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In a world of high tech achievements, Buson's haiku is beyond refreshing because it is more efficient. Call it quick seeing deep..It opens the mind with a deep dimensional structure of space and time.. True poetry..simple and free connecting all points
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beautiful translations and, as usual for Ueda, the most insightful commentary.
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Dewey Decimal Number: 895.6132
EAN: 9780804730426
Edition: illustrated edition
ISBN: 0804730423
Label: Stanford University Press
Manufacturer: Stanford University Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 226
Publication Date: 1998-07
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Studio: Stanford University Press