Thousand Strands of Black Hair
Publisher: Anthem Press
Published: 2012
Language: eng
Number of pages: 273
ISBN-13: 9780857282460
Subjects: Authors, japanese; Poets, biography; Japanese poetry, history and criticism
Description: Exploring in detail the life and work of one of Japan's most famous and most controversial woman writers, this book examines and re-imagines the turbulent and intertwined lives of Akiko Yosano (1878-1942) and Tekkan Yosano (1873-1935), two poets who sparked a revolution in the world of Japanese tanka (short-verse classical poetry).