Basho (Matsuo Basho)

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A Zen Wave: Basho's Haiku and Zen
by Robert Aitken, Basho Matsuo. 192 pgs.

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Contents

Acknowledgments

Foreword

Introduction

One the Old Pond

Two the Mountain Path

Three Autumn in Kiso

Four Wisteria Flowers

Five Quail

Six Suma in Summer

Seven That

Eight That's Interesting

Nine the Shepherd's Purse

Ten This Road

Eleven the Morning Glory and the Butterfly

Twelve the Four-And-A-Half-Mat Room

Thirteen Bush Clover and the Moon

Fourteen the Goi

Fifteen Traveler

Sixteen Hailstones

Seventeen the Cricket

Eighteen Dreams

Nineteen Cherry Blossoms

Twenty the Bagworm

Twenty-One Flower Viewing

Twenty-Two Birds Crying

Twenty-Three Miming

Twenty-Four the Beginning of Culture

Twenty-Five the Priest and Chrysanthemum Flowers

Twenty-Six Net of the Law

Glossary of Selected Terms

Japanese Equivalents of Chinese Names

Notes
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Zen, Poetry, the Art of Lucien Stryk (Introduction to On Love and Barley: Haiku of Basho" begins on p. 223)
by Susan Porterfield. 388 pgs.

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Acknowledgments

Preface

Introduction

The American Scene Versus the International Scene

I. Lucien Stryk on Poems Ana Poetry

Making Poems

What? Why This. This Only

A World Language of Poetry?

Note on Translating Japanese Zen Poetry

Verse: Free and Otherwise

The Future of Poetry

Beyond Poetry

The Red Rug: an Introduction to Poetry

Lucien Stryk: an Interview

Ii. Lucien Stryk on Zen

Let the Spring Breeze Enter: the Quest of Zen

Beginnings, Ends

Zen Poetry

Painter and Poet

Shinkichi Takahashi: Contemporary Zen Poet

Death of a Zen Poet: Shinkichi Takahashi (1901-1987)

I Fear Nothing: a Note on the Zen Poetry of Death

Buddhism and Modern Man

Poetry and Zen

The Sound of Tearing/ the Destroyer of Books

Notes

Introduction to Encounter with Zen

Introduction to on Love and Barley: Haiku of Basho

Preface to Crow with No Mouth: Ikkyu

Introduction to the Dumpling Field: Haiku of Issa

Modern Japanese Haiku

Encounter with Lucien Stryk

III: On the Poet

Lucien Sfryk's Poetry

Notes

Earning the Language: the Writing of Lucien Stryk

From "Zen: the Rocks of Sesshu" to "Triumph of the Sparrow: Zen Poems of Shinkichi Takahashi": the Japanese Sources of Lucien Stryk's Early Poems

Notes

Translating Lucien Stryk

Iv Selected Poetry of Lucien Stryk

Books by Lucien Stryk

Works Cited
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The Japanese Haiku, Its Essential Nature, History, and Possibilities in English, with Selected Examples (Includes discussion of Basho in multiple chapters)
by Kenneth Yasuda. 240 pgs.

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Foreword

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter One an Approach to Haiku

Chapter Three Haiku Nature

Chapter Four Crystallization

Chapter Five Historical View

Chapter Six the English Haiku: Conclusions

Selected Haiku

Notes

Bibliography

Index
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A Net of Fireflies: Japanese Haiku and Haiku Paintings (Includes many haiku by Basho)
by Harold Stewart. 180 pgs.

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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Spring

Summer

Autumn

Winter

On Haiku and Haiga: an Essay

Notes

Bibliography

Index of Authors and Titles
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Basho and the Mastery of Poetic Space in 'Oku No Hosomichi', in The Journal of the American Oriental Society
by Steven D. Carter. 9 pgs.

Journal Article
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Composing Zen Haiku: Training to Make Sense, in ETC.: A Review of General Semantics
by Stewart W. Holmes. 7 pgs.

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Japanese Aesthetics and Culture: A Reader (Chap. 7 "Basho on the Art of the Haiku: Impersonality in Poetry")
by Nancy G. Hume. 378 pgs.

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Preface

Introduction

Historical Periods

Notes on Language, Pronunciation, and Names

Chapter 1: Japanese Literature: Four Polarities

Notes

Chapter 2: Japanese Aesthetics

Notes

Chapter 3: The Vocabulary of Japanese Aesthetics, I, Ii, III

Notes

Chapter 4: Ways of Japanese Thinking

Notes

Chapter 5: Feminine Sensibility in the Heian Era

Notes

Chapter 6: Approach to Haiku and "Basic Principles"

Notes

Chapter 7: Bashō on the Art of the Haiku: Impersonality in Poetry

Notes

Chapter 8: Zeami on the Art of the Nō Drama: Imitation, Yūgen, and Sublimity

Notes

Chapter 9: The Social Environment of Tokugawa Kabuki

Notes

Chapter 10: The Wabi Aesthetic through the Ages

Notes

Chapter 11: BushidŌ: Mode or Ethic?

Notes

Chapter 12: Culture in the Present Age

Notes

Glossary

Annotated Bibliography

Index
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Masterworks of Asian Literature in Comparative Perspective: A Guide for Teaching ("The Poetry of Matsuo Basho" begins on p. 378)
by Barbara Stoler Miller. 583 pgs.

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Contents by Country

Contents by Genre

Preface

Guide to the Reader

Principles of Transliteration and Pronunciation Guide

Introduction Masterworks of Asian Literature in Comparative Perspective

ESSAYISTS AND DISCUSSANTS

I The Worlds of Asian Literature

The Imaginative Universe of Indian Literature

A Note on Modern Indian Literature

The Imaginative Universe of Chinese Literature

The Imaginative Universe of JapaneseLiterature

A Note of Modern JapaneseLiterature

II Indian Texts

Classical Sanskirt Lyric: Poetry of Love and Loss

Classical Tamil Poetry and Tamil Poetics

Devotional Poetry of Medieval North India

Lyric Poetry in Urdu: The Ghazal

The Poems and Stories of Rabindranath Tagore

The Mahābh+0101rata, Including the Bhagavad GĪTĪ: India's Great Epic

The RāMāYAṆA OF VĀLMĪKI

Anita Desai: Fire on the Mountain and Games at Twilight

R. K. Narayan's the Fiancial Expert

The Short Stories of Premchand

Salman Rushdie: Midnight Children

Samskara: The Passing of the Brahman Tradition

Two Classical Indian Plays: Kālidāsa's ŚAkuntalā and ŚDraka's Little Clay Cart

III Chinese Texts

The Book Songs

The Poetry of Retreat

Tang Poetry: A Return to Basics

Chuang Tzu

RECORDS OF THE HISTORIAN

The Journey to the West

Cao Xueqin's Hongloumeng (Story of the Stone or Dream of the Red Chamber)

Liu E's the travels of Lao Can

The Stories of Lu Xun

Camel Xiangzi (Rickshaw) By Lao She

Contemporary Chinese Letters

Chinese Texts: Drama Story of the Western Wing (XIXIANG JI) (Romance of the Western Chamber)

IV Japanese Texts

THE Man'yŌshŪ and KokinshŪ Collections

A Japanese Waka

The Poetry of Matsuo BachŌ

The Tale of Genji

A Book of One's Own: The Gossamer Years; The Pillow Book and the Confessions of Lady Niju+14c

"An Account of my Hut"

Seven Japanese Tales By Tanizaki Jun'ichiro

Beyond Absolution: Enchi Fumiko's the Waiting Years and Masks

The Women in the Dunes

Mishima Yukio, the Allegorist

Kawabata Yasunari's Snow Country

SŌseki's Kokoro

Three Playus of the Noh Theater

The Love Suicide at Sonezaki

Introduction

Postscript East-West Literary Relations: The "Wisdom" of the "East"

Summaries of the Masterworks

Historical Timelines

Index

Contributors
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Anthology of Japanese Literature, from the Earliest Era to the Mid-Nineteenth Century (Includes "The Narrow Road of Oku" and "Prose Poem on the Unreal Dwelling" by Matsuo Basho and "Haiku" by Basho and His School)
by Donald Keene, Donald Keene. 450 pgs.

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This extensive anthology includes excerpts from plays and novels plus stories, fairy tales, and many poems.

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PREFACE

Contents

INTRODUCTION

Man'YŌshŪ

The Luck of the Sea and the Luck of the Mountains

KaifŪsŌ

HEIAN PERIOD 794-1185

KŪkai and His Master

The Tales of Ise

KokinshŪ

The Tosa Diary

Poetry from the Six Collections

KagerŌ Nikki

Yugao

The Pillow Book of Sei ShŌnagon

The Diary of Murasaki Shikibu

Poetry in Chinese

RyŌ Jin HishŌ

KAMAKURA PERIOD 1185-1333

The Tale of the Heike

ShinkokinshŪ

An Account of My Hut

Tales from the Uji Collection

The Captain of Naruto

MUROMACHI PERIOD 1333-1600

The Exile of Godaigo

Seami on the Art of the Nō

Plan of the NÖ Stage

Sotoba Kamachi

Birds of Sorrow

Atsumori

The Damask Drum

The Bird - Catcher in Hades

Buso

Poems in Chinese by Buddhist Monks

Three Poets at Minase

The Three Priests

TOKUGAWA PERIOD: 1600-1868

To the Almanac - Maker

The Umbrella Oracle

The Eternal Storehouse of Japan

The Narrow Road of Oku

Prose Poem on the Unreal Dwelling

Conversations with Kyorai

Haiku by BashŌ and His School

Chikamatsu on the Art of the Puppet Stage

THE LOVE SUICIDES AT SONEZAKI

Hizakurige

Shino and Hamaki

Haiku of the Middle and Late Tokugawa Period

Waka of the Tokugawa Period

Poetry and Prose in Chinese

SHORT BIBLIOGRAPHY
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Collected Writings of J. Thomas Rimer (Chap. 19 "Aware on the Seine: Shimazaki Toson Reads Basho")
by J. Thomas Rimer. 555 pgs.

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Introduction

Part I: Writings on Noh

1: Taema, a Noh Play Attributed to Zeami.

2: What More Do We Need to Know About the Nō?

3: Kata as Part of a Large Design in Japanese Culture

4: The Background of Zeami's Treatises

Part II: Writings on Japanese Poetry

5: A Lyrical Impulse in Modern Japanese Prints and Poetry

6: Ishikawa Jōzan

Part III: Writings on Mori Ōgai

7: The Historical Literature of Mori Ōgai: an Introduction

8: Some Observations on Ōgai's Work

9: Mori Ōgai and Jean-Paul Sartre: Some Intersections of Biography, History and Literature

10: The Metamorphosis of Disguise: Isben, Sōseki and Ōgai

Part IV: Japan's Modern Theatre

11: Four Plays by Tanaka Chikao

12: Modernization or Westernization: the Movement for a Modern Theatre in Japan Before 1925

13: An Interview with Yamazaki Masakazu

14: Japanese Theater in the World

15: Chekhov and the Beginnings of Modern Japanese Theater, 1910-1928

16: Shakespeare Meets the Buddha: Tsubouchi Shōyō, Osanai Kaoru and the Hermit

17: The Longest Voyage of All: Shakespeare's Pericles in Japan

18: With a Nod to Chekhov: Strategies of Dream and Memory in the Dramas of Shimizu Kunio

Part V: Japanese Literature

19: Aware on the Seine: Shimazaki Tōson Reads Bashō

20: The Tale of Genji as a Modern Novel

21: Japanese Literature: Four Polarities

Part VI: Cultural Crossroads

22: Kurata Hyakuzō and the Origins of Love and Understanding

23: High Culture in the Showa Period

24: Iwanami Shigeo's Meiji Education: Encounters, Transmissions

Part VII: Art and Artistry

25: Tokyo in Paris/Paris in Tokyo

26: 'teiten' and After, 1919-1935; Encountering Blank Spaces: a Decade of War, 1935-1945; Postwar Developments: Absorptions and Amalgamation, 1945-1968

27: Kinoshita Mokutarō as Critic: Putting Meiji Art in Context

28: Hegel in Tokyo: Ernest Fenellosa and His 1882 Lecture on the Truth of Art

Selected Bibliography

Name Index
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Japanese Literature: An Introduction for Western Readers (Discussion of Basho begins on p. 38 )
by Donald Keene. 118 pgs.

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PREFACE

I. Introduction

Ii. Japanese Poetry

Iii. the Japanese Theatre

Iv. the Japanese Novel

V. Japanese Literature Under Western Influence

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX
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Fifty Key Thinkers on the Environment ("Basho, 1644-94" begins on p. 51)
by Joy A. Palmer, David E. Cooper, Peter Blaze Corcoran. 322 pgs.

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Fifty Key Thinkers on the Environment is a unique guide to environmental thinking through the ages. Joy Palmer has assembled a team of over twenty expert contributors to summarize and analyze the thinking of fifty diverse and stimulating figures from all over the world and from ancient times to the present Among those included are philosophers such as Jean Jacques Rousseau, activists such as Chico Mendes, literary giants such as Virgil, and major religious figures such as Gotama (The Buddha). Lucid, scholarly and informative, these fifty essays offer a fascinating overview of mankind's view and understanding of the physical world.

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Preface

Virgil’s Major Writings

Note

Bacon’s Major Writings

Wordsworth’s Major Writings

Further Reading

Naess’s Major Writings

Notes

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