Leading literary scholar and critic Koji Kawamoto examines traditional Japanese poetry and shows how the deceptively simple metrics of seven and five syllables packs information and intense emotional content into a short space. The book also provides an overview of the development of the "waka" and "haiku" forms, using hundreds of examples from ancient to modern poets to illustrate the ways in which meaning and image are transmitted by traditional metric forms.
- ISBN10 0860085260
- ISBN13 9780860085263
- Publish Date 4 July 2022
- Publish Status Forthcoming
- Publish Country JP
- Imprint University of Tokyo Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 320
- Language English