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Η Σικίμπου έζησε τον ενδέκατο αιώνα μ. Χ., αν και δεν είναι γνωστές οι ακριβείς ημερομηνίες της γέννησης και του θανάτου της (μετά το 1061). (. . .) Το ποιητικό της τάλαντο είχε αναγνωριστεί αρκετά νωρίς και 240 από τα 1.450 περίπου ποιήματα που άφησε ανθολογήθηκαν σε αυτοκρατορικές συλλογές. Έτσι όχι μόνο ο χαρακτήρας της αλλά και οι ποιητικές της αρετές προξενούσαν την εντύπωση, αν και δεν σκανδάλιζαν κι όλας το περιβάλλον της. Ήταν όμορφη κι απελευθερωμένη. Στην περίπτωσή της, η γυναίκα και η ποιήτρια ταυτίζονται είναι αυτό που γράφει....
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(P/B) JAPANESE DEATH POEMS
Although the consciousness of death is in most cultures very much a part of life, this is perhaps nowhere more true than in Japan, where the approach of death has given rise to a centuries-old tradition of writing jisei, or the death poem. Such a poem is often written in the very last moments of the poet’s life. (. . .) (ΑΠΟ ΤΗΝ ΠΑΡΟΥΣΙΑΣΗ ΣΤΟ ΟΠΙΣΘΟΦΥΛΛΟ ΤΟΥ ΒΙΒΛΙΟΥ)...
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91 ΙΑΠΩΝΙΚΑ ΠΟΙΗΜΑΤΑ ΣΥΝ 1

THE BRITISH MUSEUM HAIKU
In Japan, the natural scene and the details of human life are the common focus of the haiku poet and many artists. The inspiration of this book is to bring them together, revealing the talents of both the artists and poets in making the obvious seem remarkable, and the everyday seem extraordinary. Works of art from the extensive British Museum collections are matched with a selection of the most celebrated haiku, in both their original Japanese and in sympathetic English translations. David Cobb's introduction and biographical notes on the...
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(P/B) TRADITIONAL JAPANESE POETRY
This anthology brings togethere in convenient form a rich selection of Japanese poetry in traditional genres dating back from the earliest times to the twentieth century. With more than 1,100 poems, it is the most varied and comprehensive selection of traditional Japanese poetry now available in English. Ezra Pound called poetry "the most concentrated form of verbal expression," and the great poets of Japan wrote poems as charged and compressed as poems can be. The Japanese language, with its few consonates and even fewer vowels, did not l...
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(P/B) EROTIC HAIKU

(P/B) THE SOUND OF WATER

(P/B) MENCIUS (INCLUDES TRANSLATIONS OF ANCIENT POETS)

(P/B) BASHO'S HAIKU

(P/B) THE TALES OF ISE

(P/B) THE JAPANESE HAIKU

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