Light Verse from the Floating World: An Anthology of Premodern Japanese Senryu Paperback - 1999
by Makoto Ueda (Translator)
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In eighteenth-century Japan samurai were at the top of the social hierarchy, ruling over peasants, artisans, and merchants.
From the rear cover
Similar in form to the well-known, more serious haiku, the satirical and often humorous poems known as senryu have received little scholarly attention because most were written by anonymous amateur poets and were therefore considered popular literature unworthy of serious study. Senryu are interesting, however, precisely because they reflect the thoughts and feelings of ordinary townspeople in a way that other more orthodox types of Japanese literature do not. In his introduction on the nature and historical background of the form, Makoto Ueda explores the elements of humor and satire contained in senryu, highlighting the mores that lie behind the laughter the poems evince.
Replete with keen observations on the human world rather than the natural one, the four hundred eighteenth- and nineteenth-century poems collected here comprise the first comprehensive anthology in English translation of this major genre of Japanese literature.
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- Title Light Verse from the Floating World: An Anthology of Premodern Japanese Senryu
- Author Makoto Ueda (Translator)
- Binding Paperback
- Pages 288
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Columbia University Press, U.S.A
- Date 1999-10-06
- Features Bibliography
- ISBN 9780231115513 / 0231115512
- Weight 0.7 lbs (0.32 kg)
- Dimensions 8.96 x 4.99 x 0.74 in (22.76 x 12.67 x 1.88 cm)
- Reading level 1660
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 18th Century
- Chronological Period: 19th Century
- Cultural Region: Asian - General
- Cultural Region: Asian - Japanese
- Ethnic Orientation: Asian - Japanese
- Library of Congress subjects Senryu - Translations into English
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 99020630
- Dewey Decimal Code 895.610
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Citations
- Publishers Weekly, 01/10/2000, Page 60
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