Haikai Poet Yosa Buson and the Bashō Revival

by Cheryl A. Crowley

This book uses the haikai verse and paintings of the brilliant, innovative artist Yosa Buson (1716-1783) as a focal point from which to explore how Japanese writers competed for artistic authority in a time when popular responses to economic, technological, and social changes were creating the beginnings of a modern literature. The first part of the book discusses Buson's role in the Bashō Revival movement, situating his haikai in the context...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004157093
• ISBN13: 9789004157095
• Release Date: December 2006
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 308 Pages
• Weight: 1.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.7"