A Girl with Tangled Hair: The 399 tanka in Midaregami ? Tangled Hair by Akiko Yosano - Softcover

Reichhold, Jane; Kobayashi, Machiko

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0944676545 ISBN 13: 9780944676547

Publisher: AHA Books, 2013

Synopsis

For the first time all the tanka in Akiko Yosano's 1901 book, Midaregami - Tangled Hair, have been translated into English. Each of the tanka has the original kanji version, a romaji version and the English so readers in both languages can appreciate the depth of Yosano's poetry. One of the reasons these 399 tanka have not been translated before is the difficulty of discovering the ambiguity in the poems. Machiko Kobayashi, a professional translator with a degree in English Literature has teamed up Jane Reichhold, a tanka poet and translator of six books from the Japanese. Introduction to the book is written by Aya Yuhki, editor of The Tanka Journal in Tokyo.

About this title

About the Author:

Author and translator, with a special interest in haiku, tanka, and renga, JANE REICHHOLD is a three-time winner of the Haiku Society of America Merit Book Award. She has been a member of the Haiku Society of America, Haiku Poets of Northern California, Haiku Canada, Haiku International (Tokyo,
Japan), German Haiku Society, and Poetry Society of Japan. She runs the web site Aha! Poetry (www.ahapoetry.com).

About this edition

• Publisher: AHA Books
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0944676545
• ISBN 13: 9780944676547
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 236