CHIYO-NI: WOMAN HAIKU MASTER
by Donegan, Patricia and Yoshie Ishibashi (Translators)
- Used
- near fine
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0804820538
- ISBN 13
- 9780804820530
- Seller
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Eugene, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Tokyo, Boston, Singapore: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1998. Stated First Edition. Softcover. Near Fine. 280 pp. including Notes and Bibliography. A wee bit of shelfwear and very very light rubbing to corners, previous owner's name and address to half-title page. Overall, tight and bright copy of this quite scarce first book in English on a woman haiku poet. First book in English on a woman Haiku poet. "Chiyo-ni (1703-1775) also known as Kaga no Chiyo, is perhaps Japan's most celebrated female haiku poet. A student of two of Basho's disciples, she worked in an age when haiku was largely a male domain. As a poet, painter, and Buddhist nun, she lived a vibrant life while creating poems of crystalline clarity and delicate sensuality.
"...more than one hundred translations of her finest seasonal haiku, renku (linked verse), and haibun (travel poems). Most of the poems appear here for the first time in English..."
"...more than one hundred translations of her finest seasonal haiku, renku (linked verse), and haibun (travel poems). Most of the poems appear here for the first time in English..."
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- Bookseller
- Aardvark Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 87300
- Title
- CHIYO-NI: WOMAN HAIKU MASTER
- Author
- Donegan, Patricia and Yoshie Ishibashi (Translators)
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Stated First Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0804820538
- ISBN 13
- 9780804820530
- Publisher
- Charles E. Tuttle Company
- Place of Publication
- Tokyo, Boston, Singapore
- Date Published
- 1998
- Keywords
- Women Poets, Japanese Women Poets, Haiku, Haibun, Renku,.Kaga no Chiyo.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry;
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