Add to ORKGA close reading of select Ono no Komachi’s poetry from The Ink Dark Moon: Love Poems, translated by Jane Hirshfield with Mariko Aratani. Ono, a Japanese female poet of the Heian period, uses tanka, a short poetic form consisting of only five lines, to create direct and deceptively simple poems. On a superficial reading, these appear to be only short love letters with little depth and significance; however, a careful study of Ono and Hirshfield’s craft exposes the function of the enjambments (when a sentence ends and a new one begins in the same line), line breaks, alliteration, and kigo—autumn represented by the moon. These poetic devices work to question the concept of reality, comparing, but mostly blurring, waking life to dreamscape. I h...
My dissertation, Unveiling Open Secrets of Hometown, War, and Mass Culture in Twentieth Century Japa...
Ono no Komachi, the ninth century Heian poet, features in five Noh plays from the fourteenth and fif...
[EN] The work presented compiles the illustration process of a Japanese poetry book, from the transl...
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Drawing on various Chinese mythologies about women, particularly the folktale of Chang ???E (the Lad...
Various forms are found of inserting a poem (tanka, haiku, etc.) in prose in Japanese literary works...
This dissertation examines the transformation of lyric thinking in Japanese literati (bunjin) cultur...
Japan is the only country in the world where women writers laid the foundations of classical literat...
Form is central to poetry, if not all artistic endeavor. The Japanese literary tradition contains an...
This thesis is a translation and analysis of select tanka from the tanka anthology, Ai wo utae (Sing...
Print shows Sugawara Michizane, full-length, standing next to a tree beneath a full moon, writing po...
The later poems of Tu-fu were criticized severely by Chu-hsi 朱熹 the master of Sung neo-Confucianism,...
Book five of the earliest extant anthology of Japanese poetry, the eighth century Man'yoshu, is uniq...
My dissertation, Unveiling Open Secrets of Hometown, War, and Mass Culture in Twentieth Century Japa...
Ono no Komachi, the ninth century Heian poet, features in five Noh plays from the fourteenth and fif...
[EN] The work presented compiles the illustration process of a Japanese poetry book, from the transl...
In "The Water Level of Love (Ai no suii)," a suite of five tanka poems written by Ikuyo Sakamori and...
“The Night Owl and Other Poems” is a collection of poems that explores four areas of the human condi...
The article is an attempt at presenting the development of native Japanese poetry at the turn of Nar...
Drawing on various Chinese mythologies about women, particularly the folktale of Chang ???E (the Lad...
Various forms are found of inserting a poem (tanka, haiku, etc.) in prose in Japanese literary works...
This dissertation examines the transformation of lyric thinking in Japanese literati (bunjin) cultur...
Japan is the only country in the world where women writers laid the foundations of classical literat...
Form is central to poetry, if not all artistic endeavor. The Japanese literary tradition contains an...
This thesis is a translation and analysis of select tanka from the tanka anthology, Ai wo utae (Sing...
Print shows Sugawara Michizane, full-length, standing next to a tree beneath a full moon, writing po...
The later poems of Tu-fu were criticized severely by Chu-hsi 朱熹 the master of Sung neo-Confucianism,...
Book five of the earliest extant anthology of Japanese poetry, the eighth century Man'yoshu, is uniq...
My dissertation, Unveiling Open Secrets of Hometown, War, and Mass Culture in Twentieth Century Japa...
Ono no Komachi, the ninth century Heian poet, features in five Noh plays from the fourteenth and fif...
[EN] The work presented compiles the illustration process of a Japanese poetry book, from the transl...