The Winter Sun Shines in

The Winter Sun Shines in
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Publisher : Columbia University Press
Total Pages : 276
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ISBN-10 : 9780231164887
ISBN-13 : 0231164882
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Book Synopsis The Winter Sun Shines in by : Donald Keene

Download or read book The Winter Sun Shines in written by Donald Keene and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rather than resist the vast changes sweeping Japan in the 19th century, the poet Masaoka Shiki (1867-1902) incorporated new Western influences into his country's native haiku and tanka verse. Based on extensive readings of Shiki's own writings and accounts of the poet by his contemporaries and family, Donald Keene Charts Shiki's distinctive (and often contradictory) experiments with haiku and tanka, a dynamic process that made the survival of these genres possible in a globalizing world.


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