Yosano Akiko (Book order)

Yosano Akiko Book order

Akiko Yosano was a Japanese author, poet, pioneering feminist, pacifist, and social reformer. She is regarded as one of Japan's most famous and controversial post-classical women poets. Her work was characterized by a strong feminist and pacifist ethos. She was active during the late Meiji, Taishō, and early Shōwa periods of Japan.

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Yosano Akiko (1878-1942) is one of the most famous Japanese writers of the twentieth century. She is the author of more than seventy-five books, including twenty volumes of original poetry and the definitive translation into modern Japanese of the Tale of the Genji. Although probably best known for her exquisite erotic poetry, Akiko's work also championed the causes of feminism, pacifism, and social reform. Akiko's poetry is profoundly direct, often passionate, exposing the complexity of everyday emotions in poetic language stripped of artifice and presenting the full breadth of her poetic vision. Included in this volume are ninety-one of Akiko's tanka (a traditional five-line form of verse) and a dozen of her longer poems written in the modern style.