Travels in Manchuria and Mongolia

Yosano Akiko (1878-1942) was one of Japan's greatest poets and translators from classical Japanese. Her output was extraordinary, including twenty volumes of poetry and the most popular translation of the ancient classic The Tale of Genji into modern Japanese. The mother of eleven children, she was a prominent feminist and frequent contributor to Japan's first feminist journal of creative writing, Seito (Blue stocking).In 1928 at a highpoint of Sino-Japanese tensions, Yosano was invited by the South Manchurian Railway Company to travel around areas with a prominent Japanese presence in China's northeast. This volume, translated for the first time into English, is her account of that journey. Though a portrait of China and the Chinese, the chronicle is most revealing as a portrait of modern Japanese representations of China―and as a study of Yosano herself.

Biographies & Memoirs

YOSANO, AKIKO

Arts & Literature

Columbia University Press

Yosano Akiko (1878-1942) was one of Japan's greatest poets and translators from classical Japanese. Her output was extraordinary, including twenty volumes of poetry and the most popular translation of the ancient classic The Tale of Genji into modern Japanese. The mother of eleven children, she was a prominent feminist and frequent contributor to Japan's first feminist journal of creative writing, Seito (Blue stocking). In 1928 at a highpoint of Sino-Japanese tensions, Yosano was invited by the South Manchurian Railway Company to travel around areas with a prominent Japanese presence in China's northeast. This volume, translated for the first time into English, is her account of that journey. Though a portrait of China and the Chinese, the chronicle is most revealing as a portrait of modern Japanese representations of China―and as a study of Yosano herself.

Tangled Hair: Selected Tanka from Midaregami (Tut Books. L)

Literature & Fiction

Goldstein, Sanford

Literary

Tuttle Pub

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Tangled Hair: Selected Tanka from Midaregami

Lafayette: Purdue University Studies

Yosano Akiko (1878-1942) is admired as the greatest woman poet and tanka poet of Modern Japan. These poems come from her book Midaregami or Tangled Hair which was an immediate success when published in 1901. The poems are complemented by a series of delicate drawings by Japanese artist Hide Oshiro.

Tangled Hair: Love Poems of Yosano Okiko

Poetry

White Pine Press

Eiga monogatari (Japanese Edition)

History

Matsumura, Hiroji

Yosano, Tekkan

Asia

Nabu Press

Yosano Akiko (1878-942) is one of the most famous Japanese writers of the twentieth century. She is the author of more than seventy-five books, including twenty volumes of original poetry and the definitive translation into modern Japanese of the Tale of the Genji. Although probably best known for her exquisite erotic poetry, Akiko's work also championed the causes of feminism, pacifism, and social reform. Akiko's poetry is profoundly direct, often passionate, exposing the complexity of everyday emotions in poetic language stripped of artifice and presenting the full breadth of her poetic vision. Included are ninety-one of Akiko's tanka (a traditional five-line form of verse) and a dozen of her longer poems written in the modern style.

River of Stars: Selected Poems of Yosano Akiko

Hamill, Sam

Gibson, Keiko Matsui

Shambhala

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