Breeze Through Bamboo: Kanshi of Ema Saiko

by Hiroaki Sato

Assembled in this book are translations of kanshi poetry - verse written in classical Chinese, but read as Japanese - by Ema Saiko (1787-1861) who distinguished herself as a writer of kanashi at a time when composition of Chinese was the strict province of men.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231110642
• ISBN13: 9780231110648
• Release Date: February 2003
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher