This collection of essays explores certain neglected aspects of this haikai master's literary and philosophical contributions. Haikai is an art that parodies and often subverts its linguistic, generic, and personal predecessors, and its intersections include imaginative links to the rest of Japanese literature and culture, to Chinese prose and poetry, and to the social, intellectual, and everyday realities of seventeenth century Tokugawa life.
Author(s): Eleanor Kerkham
Edition: Tra
Year: 2006
Language: English
Pages: 288
Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
Illustrations......Page 10
Acknowledgments......Page 12
Introduction Haikai Intersections......Page 14
Part I: The Artist as Thinker......Page 34
1 Bashō at the Center of Creation......Page 36
2 Zōka: The Creative in Bashō's View of Nature and Art......Page 46
3 Reinventing the Landscape: The Zhuangzi and the Geographical Imagination of Bashō......Page 74
4 Skeletons on the Path: Bashō Looks Forward......Page 92
Part II: The Artist as Poet......Page 116
5 Double Voices and Bashō's Haikai......Page 118
6 Loosening the Links: Considering Intention in Linked Verse and its Consequences......Page 140
7 Exploring Bashō's World of Poetic Expression: Soundscape Haiku......Page 172
8 And Us Too Enclosed in Mori Atsushi's Ware mo mata, Oku no hosomichi......Page 186
Part III: The Poet as Painter......Page 212
9 Bashō and the Haiga......Page 214
10 Interactions of Text and Image in Haiga......Page 230
11 Buson's Bashō: The Embrace of Influence......Page 256
Contributors......Page 270
C......Page 274
G......Page 275
J......Page 276
M......Page 277
P......Page 278
S......Page 279
Y......Page 280
Z......Page 281
