Tangled Hair
Modern Japanese Poets Series
Volume Two
Tangled Hair
Akiko Yosano
1912
translated from the works of the poet
Akiko Yosano
by
Shio Sakanishi, Ph.D.
Marshall Jones Company
Boston
Copyright, 1935
by
Marshall Jones Company
First Edition
December, 1935
Printed in the United States of America
To
Pauli Lyman
Modern Japanese Poets Series
Already Published
I • Takuboku Ishikawa: A Handful of Sand
II • Akiko Yosano: Tangled Hair
In Preparation
III • Sachio Ito
IV • Akahiko Shimaki
V • Hakushu Kitahara
VI • Mokichi Saito
Preface
Western students of Japanese literature know little of the renaissance of poetic inspiration which originated during the closing years of the nineteenth century. It produced such significant writers as Takuboku Ishikawa, Sachio Ito, and Akahiko Shimaki, and among the living poets Mrs. Akiko Yosano, Hakushu Kitahara, and Dr. Mokichi Saito who are the leaders of their own schools. The purpose of the Modern Japanese Poets Series is to introduce them.
The present volume, the second of the series, includes a small but significant portion of Akiko Yosano’s work. The only poetess in the series represents the romantic school of modern Japanese poetry, and is not a stranger in the West[1]. The first one hundred twenty-two poems are in the classical form of thirty-one syllables, while the last fifteen are in the longer modern mode, which actually is formless. I have aimed at a scrupulously exact and literal translation, and tried to retain as far as possible the rhythm of the original. I have refrained from the use of rhyme, a restriction which necessarily hampers literalness and gives an air of artificiality.
To Lilian E. Knowles for many valuable suggestions, to Miss Agnes DeLano and Donald Goodchild for assisting me in the revision of the manuscript, and to Miss Suzanne Webb for the pencil sketch of Akiko Yosano after the Miroir, I wish to express my deep indebtedness.
S. S.
- November, 1935
- Library of Congress
- ↑ Three Women Poets of Modern Japan, by Glenn Hughes and Yozan T. Iwasaki. (University of Washington Chapbooks No. 9.)
Contents
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Portraits in Clay
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