Inscribed Red: Haiku Versions After Akutagawa Ryūnosuke

by Eric Hoffman and Akutagawa Rynosuke

As celebrated as Akutagawa Ryūnosuke is as a short story writer, his haiku-the first of which was composed in 1906, the same year Akutagawa began to read contemporary Japanese literature-is relatively unknown outside of Japan, and rarely translated. Akutagawa's teikei (fixed-form) haiku, like his fiction, mostly eschews modernism in its embrace of classical forms, and derives as much from literary tradition as from lived experience...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1959556975
• ISBN13: 9781959556978
• Release Date: February 2024
• Publisher: Spuyten Duyvil
• Length: 170 Pages
• Weight: 0.37 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.0" x 7.0"