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Waka --- History and criticism --- Yosano, Akiko, --- Criticism and interpretation.

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Yosano Akiko (1878-1942) has long been recognized as one of the most important literary figures of prewar Japan. Her renown derives principally from the passion of her early poetry and from her contributions to 20th-century debates about women. This emphasis obscures a major part of her career, which was devoted to work on the Japanese classics and, in particular, the great Heian period text The Tale of Genji. Akiko herself felt that Genji was the bedrock upon which her entire literary career was built, and her bibliography shows a steadily increasing amount of time devoted to projects related to the tale. This study traces for the first time the full range of Akiko's involvement with The Tale of Genji. The Tale of Genji provided Akiko with her conception of herself as a writer and inspired many of her most significant literary projects. She, in turn, refurbished the tale as a modern novel, pioneered some of the most promising avenues of modern academic research on Genji, and, to a great extent, gave the text the prominence it now enjoys as a translated classic. Through Akiko's work Genji became, in fact as well as in name, an exemplum of that most modern of literary genres, the novel. In delineating this important aspect of Akiko's life and her bibliography, this study aims to show that facile descriptions of Akiko as a "poetess of passion" or "new woman" will no longer suffice.

Yosano, Akiko, --- Murasaki Shikibu, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Hō, Shō, --- Hō, Akiko, --- Yosano, Akiko Hō, --- 与謝野晶子, --- 與謝野晶子, --- 興謝野晶子,

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How did a girl from the provinces, meant to do nothing more than run the family store, become a bold and daring poet whose life and work helped change the idea of love in modern Japan? Embracing the Firebird is the first book-length study in English of the early life and work of Yosano Akiko (1879-1942), the most famous post-classical woman poet of Japan. It follows Akiko, who was born into a merchant family in the port city of Sakai near Osaka, from earliest childhood to her twenties, charting the slow process of development before the seemingly sudden metamorphosis.Akiko's later poetry has now begun to win long-overdue recognition, but in terms of literary history the impact of Midaregami (Tangled Hair, 1901), her first book, still overshadows everything else she wrote, for it brought individualism to traditional tanka poetry with a tempestuous force and passion found in no other work of the period. Embracing the Firebird traces Akiko's emotional and artistic development up to the publication of this seminal work, which became a classic of modern Japanese poetry and marked the starting point of Akiko's forty-year-long career as a writer. It then examines Tangled Hair itself, the characteristics that make it a unified work of art, and its originality.The study throughout includes Janine Beichman's elegant translations of poems by Yosano Akiko (both those included in Tangled Hair and those not), as well as poems by contemporaries such as Yosano Tekkan, Yamakawa Tomiko, and others.

Women and literature --- Japanese poetry --- Women authors --- History and criticism. --- Yosano, Akiko, --- Criticism and interpretation.

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Yosano Akiko (1878-1942) was one of Japan's greatest poets and translators from classical Japanese. Her output was extraordinary, including twenty volumes of poetry and the most popular translation of the ancient classic The Tale of Genji into modern Japanese. The mother of eleven children, she was a prominent feminist and frequent contributor to Japan's first feminist journal of creative writing, Seito (Blue stocking).In 1928 at a highpoint of Sino-Japanese tensions, Yosano was invited by the South Manchurian Railway Company to travel around areas with a prominent Japanese presence in China's northeast. This volume, translated for the first time into English, is her account of that journey. Though a portrait of China and the Chinese, the chronicle is most revealing as a portrait of modern Japanese representations of China-and as a study of Yosano herself.

LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Japanese. --- Yosano, Akiko, --- Hō, Shō, --- Hō, Akiko, --- Yosano, Akiko Hō, --- 与謝野晶子, --- 與謝野晶子, --- 興謝野晶子, --- Travel --- Manchuria (China) --- Mongolia --- Description and travel. --- J2284.80 --- J5630 --- S22/0300 --- S23/0300 --- Japan: Genealogy and biography -- biographies -- Gendai, modern (1926- ), Shōwa, 20th century --- Japan: Literature -- literary diaries, letters and accounts of travel --- North-eastern provinces (Manchuria)--Geography, description and travel --- Mongolia and the Mongols (including Tannu Tuva, Buriats)--Geography, description and travel --- Yosano, Akiko

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J5500 --- J5900 --- J5700 --- J2284 --- Japanese literature --- -Women authors, Japanese --- -Japanese women authors --- Authors, Japanese --- Japan: Literature -- general, history and criticism --- Japan: Literature -- fiction and prose in general --- Japan: Literature -- poetry in general --- Japan: Genealogy and biography -- biographies by period --- Women authors --- -History and criticism --- Biography --- -Japan: Literature -- general, history and criticism --- Women and literature --- Women authors, Japanese --- Japanese women authors --- Women authors&delete& --- History and criticism --- Women authors [Japanese ] --- Women authors, Japanese - Biography. --- Japanese literature - Women authors - History and criticism. --- Abutsu-ni --- Ariyoshi, Sawako --- Ben no Naishi --- Saionji, Shōshi --- Enchi, Fumiko --- Michitsuna's mother --- Shunzei's daughter --- Lady Nijō --- Harada, Yasuko --- Hashida, Sugako --- Hayashi, Fumiko --- Hayashi, Kyōko --- Higuchi, Ichiyō --- Hirabayashi, Taiko --- Hiratsuka, Raichō --- Ise no Taifu --- Izumi Shikibu --- Kyōgoku, Tameko --- Kanai, Mieko --- Kōda, Aya --- Kometani, Fumiko --- Kurahashi, Yumiko --- Meiō, Masako --- Miura, Ayako --- Miyamoto, Yuriko --- Mori, Michiyo --- Mori, Reiko --- Mori, Yōko --- Mukōda, Kuniko --- Murasaki Shikibu --- Nakatsukasa no Naishi --- Nogami, Yaeko --- Ōba, Minako --- Okamoto, Kanoko --- Ono no, Komachi --- Ōta, Yōko --- Saegusa, Kazuko --- Fujiwara no, Nagako --- Sei Shōnagon --- Setouchi, Harumi --- Shibaki, Yoshiko --- Shiraishi, Kazuko --- Sono, Ayako --- Takasue's Daughter --- Tamura, Toshiko --- Tanabe, Seiko --- Tanaka, Sumie --- Tomioka, Taeko --- Tsuboi, Sakae --- Tsumura, Setsuko --- Ui, Angel --- Uno, Chiyo --- Wada, Natto --- Yamada, Amy --- Yamamoto, Michiko --- Yamasaki, Toyoko --- Yosano, Akiko --- Yoshida, Tomoko