Embracing the Firebird: Yosano Akiko and the Birth of the Female Voice in Modern Japanese PoetryHow 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. |
Contents
A Provincial Childhood 18781888 | 15 |
Adolescence 18891900 | 43 |
Love and Poetry 19001901 | 81 |
Interpreting Tangled Hair | 197 |
Biography and the Poets Birth | 260 |
Japanese Texts of Cited Poems | 267 |
Notes | 283 |
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