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Poetry aficionados will appreciate this beautifully designed and illustrated collection of 200 haiku by the four most celebrated Japanese poets of the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries: Basho, Buson, Issa, and Shiki, who modernized the form and coined the very term haiku. Enhancing their work are four seasonally-themed groups of verse, many written by Basho's students and associates. The translation is thoroughly readable and contemporary, and the images evocative. An enlightening introduction offers biographical information on the featured poets, background on the nature of haiku and its development within the Japanese poetic tradition, and a short account of the Buddhist practice to which most of the writers were connected.
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Martin Hanson
reviewed Classic Haiku: The Greatest Japanese Poetry from Basho, Buson, Issa, Shiki, and Their Followers on March 29, 2020
Classic Haiku: The Greatest Japanese Poetry from Basho, Buson, Issa, Shiki, and Their Followers
4.5 stars. Per the introduction, "Haiku are short, brilliantly vivid poems containing visually complete descriptions of moments in a poet's experience. In the space of their original 17 Japanese syllable, haiku express worlds of profound emotional and philosophical insight. Simple on the surface, yet fascinatingly complex on close study, haiku have universal appeal, and the number of languages into which they have been translated testify to this." This book explores the history, development, and character of the haiku with its "focus on fleeting impressions of passing, momentary experience." The poetry appreciates nature, seasonal changes, life transitions, and feelings of love and loss with a comic twist. This book showcases four of the famous and their followers: Matsuo BashÅ (c.1644 - 94), who is considered the greatest master of haiku; Yosa Buson (1716 - 83), who brought a visual aspect by incorporating haiku with painting; the beloved Kobayashi Issa (1762 - 1826); and Masaoko Shiki (1867 - 1902), whose scholarly and journalistic work championed and criticized haiku works. Their followers's poems are featured in a seasonal interlude. Gorgeous black and white photos of nature are interspersed throughout.
To whet your appetite, here are a few of my favorite selections:
BashÅ:
Just butterflies
and sunlight
in the whole empty meadow.
Autumn wind.
The mulberry branch
lies sadly broken.
Buson:
Wading through a stream
in summer, carrying my sandals.
How delightful!
The bite of my axe.
Sudden revelation:
there's life in this tree!
Issa:
How beautiful the sky is
when a lark
has been singing.
Little snail,
slowly, slowly,
climbs Mount Fuji.
Shiki:
Far away and high
above the trees
fireworks are exploding.
After I'm dead, tell people
I was a persimmon eater
who also loved haiku.
Their followers
A few of my favorite selections:
Kaikyo:
In spite of the cold,
winter peonies, naked and leafless,
are in flower.
BonchÅ:
Summer rain,
In just one night
my razor has rusted over.
This is a beautiful selection and introduction to haiku.
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