Title: Thousand Strands of Black Hair
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).
Subjects: Authors, japanese, Poets, biography, Japanese poetry, history and criticism, Poets, Fiction