Senryu by Blyth (22 results)

HARDCOVER. Condition: Very Good. The Hokuseido Press. HARDCOVER. 1949. SENRYURB-01 :Sunned/foxed edges. No dust jacket. Lightly soiled boards, small chip on spine. From the personal collection of poet/publisher/photographer, Jonathan Williams (1929-2008) at Skywinding Farm, Scaly Mountain, North Carolina. 230pp. . Very Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 1949; illustrated paper covered boards with blue titles; spine and front cover are becoming detached, but are present; corners are scuffed; 8vo - over 7 3/4" to 9 3/4" tall; Interior is clean and unmarked; 230 pages. Photos available upon request.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1960 first edition hardback in very good condition. No marks to pages, clean and bright, tight binding. The brown cloth boards have faded lettering to spine, otherwise very good condition. No dust jacket. Items are dispatched the same or the following working day.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. 1st Edition. Browning to page edges and jacket flaps. Quarter-sized chip to jacket, other edge wear.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. stock photo does not represent this listing; 1960; tan cloth covered boards; illustrated white and blue paper jacket encased in a matte dustjacket; wear and discoloration around edges; 8vo, 7 3/4" to 9 3/4" tall; interior is clean and unmarked; 630 pages. Photos available upon request.

Hardcover. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. used hardcover in a dust jacket. the jacket is somewhat worn about the edges and slightly scuffed, but with no tears. corners slightly bumped, but pages and binding are clean, straight and tight. there are no marks to the text or other serious flaws. spine somewhat sun faded.

hardcover. Condition: Good. exlibrary hardcover book with dust jacket, usual library markings, has some light wear throughout.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Presumed first. Jacket is lightly age-toned with shelfwear to edges. Many large chips to edges and head and tail of spine and a large 3-4" area missing from back cover near flap fold. Creasing and rubbing throughout. Green cloth illustrated boards, matching jackt design, are bright with very light scattered soiling and toning to edges. A bit of rubbing to blue metallic spine and cover titling. Corners lightly bumped. Age toning to interior, mostly to endpapers and edges, but tight binding and all illustrations and front fold-out insert intact. With publisher's label to rear flyleaf.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Illustrated full cloth binding. Small tasteful prior bookseller's label on front flyleaf. A slight bit of foxing to page fore edges. 230pp. Frontis. color fold-out. Pen and ink illustrations throughout. Some color plates with captioned tissue overlays. Jacket has a small chip at spine head, a short tear along upper edge back panel. Offered now in a new mylar cover. Size: 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Collectible; Good. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDEDGood hardcover, no dust jacket. Clean, lightly tanned pages. Wear at head and heel of spine, corner tips. 8vo. 230pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. dust jacket ripped on top on the front as well as on the top in the back and near the middle spine, aging evident on inside of boards and pages facing boards, beautiful art work, tight binding, great copy.

First edition. Illustrated cloth binding; Fold frontis with folding captioned facing tissue; Twelve color plates with captioned facing tissues; In text cartoon like drawings throughout; 230 pages. Hardbound in very good condition in good dust jacket.

RARE comprehensive monograph on Senryu - a Japanese form of short poetry similar to haiku in construction. The author was an eminent English author and devotee of Japanese culture Reginald Horace Blyth (1898-1964), most famous for his writings on Zen and on haiku poetry. All poems appear in the book in original Japanese, transliteration in Latin characters and an English translation with commentaries. Contains color and b&w plates. 215x155mm. X+630 pages. Brown cloth Hardcover with illustrated dust-jacket. Black lettering on spine. Jacket yellowing and rubbed. Jacket spine edges/corners wrinkled. Jacket spine edges tattered and partly missing/torn. Cover curved. Front cover upper corner and spine edges slightly bumped. [SUMMARY]: This extremely rare illustrated book on Senryu, claimed by the distinguished author as the poetry which is truly representative of the Japanese spirit, is otherwise in good condition. The book is in : English.

Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First Impression. A Fine copy in dull tan rough cloth, in illustrated dustwrapper (slight wrinkle to spine panel), in publisher's cardboard slipcase (slightly toned with open end a little worn). 630pp. with Index and many illustrations. Text and endpapers immaculate. In English with some Japanese. Q17951.

Original Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Fine copy with fine unclipped jacket and original publisher's card slipcase (printed with title and author). An earlier owner, perhaps a student, has left some marginal marks and underlining in the Introductiion. The remainder of the book, well over 600 pages, is unmarked and appears not to have been read.

Primera edición. Frontispicio plegado en color, y hoja de guarda transparente con la explicación de los dibujos . IV-230 páginas. Ilustrado con 13 láminas en color fuera de texto y dibujos en el texto. Encuadernación en tela editorial ilustrada. Buen estado. 21,5x15 cm.

First edition. Illustrated cloth binding; Fold frontis with folding captioned facing tissue; Twelve color plates with captioned facing tissues; In text cartoon like drawings throughout; 230 pages. Hardbound in very good condition in near very good dust jacket; Wear to jacket spine ends with minor loss to the head.

First edition. 18 color plates with captioned facing tissues; 630 pages. Hardbound in very good condition in fair dust jacket; Jacket very worn and torn with some missing pieces; In slipcase which is somewhat worn and creased.

Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Printing (Stated). Fine copy in full brown linen cloth in a fine dust jacket with protective mylar cover, housed in the original and rare publisher's cardstock slipcase titled in black with publisher's seal on back. Decorated endpapers, color frontispiece with titled tissue-guard. viv, 630pp. illustrated with 17 plates, each with titled tissue-guards. "Senryu enable us, as they enabled the Japanese, to understand and forgive others, and, what is vastly more important, to understand and forgive ourselves. Not only the life and character of the Japanese, but our own life and character are to be seen in this book, which is thus not merely a picture, but a mirror. Look well in it!" - from the dust jacket. Reginald Horace Blyth (1898 1964) was an English author, teacher, poet, and friend and student of Zen Buddhism under D. T. Suzuki. As a devotee of Japanese culture Blyth is most famous for his writings on Zen, Haiku poetry, and Senryu. He almost single-handedly popularized Haiku in the West. During the war Blyth was interned as an enemy alien in Japan alongside Robert Aitken. After the war he worked hard to encourage a peaceful dialogue between Japan and the West, and was one of those who drafted Emperor Hirohito's official declaration that he was in fact human and not divine. Blyth died in 1964 and was buried in the cemetery of the Shokozan Tokei Soji Zenji Temple in Kamakura, next to his old friend, Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki. Suzuki described Blyth as "one of the most eminent exponents of Japanese culture." See photos.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. 630 pages. Index. "Senryu enable us, as they enabled the Japanese, to understand and forgive others, and, what is vastly more important, to understand and forgive ourselves. Not only the life and character of the Japanese, but our own life and character are to be seen in this book, which is thus not merely a picture, but a mirror. Look well in it!" - from dust jacket. Decorated endpapers. Tissue-protected colour frontisplate. Book clean with light wear. Pencil underlining and marginalia to some pages. Moderate lean to spine. Binding tight. Average wear and soiling to dust jacket which bears a couple of short openings and several coffee drops. A sound copy.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; Japanese Life and Character in Senryu Culture Literature History Japan Writing.

[Tokyo 1960,] Hokuseido. Brown cloth, very good, 630p., color frontis, 5 color, 13 b.w. plates, index, bibliography, epilogue, exceptionally crisp, clean, nice copy, 5.5 x 21.5 cm., dj. in mylar protector. FIRST & ONLY EDITION SCARCE This excellent monograph covers the chronologicl survey of Senryu, from Genroku to Meiji, Taisho, Showa, a Year of Sen- ryu, and subject matter of the Senryu, with full text in English, Japanese characters & Romanized characters. Blyth rightlyi claims Senryu as true poetry & truly representative of the Japanese spirit. The whole of Japanese life is revea- led in these pages.Way cool. Reginald Horace Blyth is always R A R E ! **** A very well written, readable set of books. The celebrated Zen master D.T. Suzuki described Blyth as "one of the most eminent exponents of Japanese culture." **** ZEN AND HAIKU: Blyth's studies on Haiku, Japanese humor and Zen are "unique contributions towards East-West understanding." Blyth lived & worked in the east 40 years, until his death in 1964. The history of Zen is the history of moments. It cannot be, like the history of ideas, or even the history of the freedom of thought, an account of development, systematization, criticism, modification, replacement and so forth. Zen seems to become deeper sometimes, shallower, broader, narrower sometimes, but there is no progress of the ordinary kind. It is a history only in the sense of being a list of names of great men in the attainment of great and so forth. Zen seems to become deeper sometimes, shallower, broader, narrower sometimes, but there is no progress of the ordinary kind. It is a history only in the sense of being a list of names of great men in the attainment of great Buddha-hood. * BLYTH'S CONTRIBUTION: Blyth lived and worked in the East for forty years, until his death in 1964 at the age of sixty-six. From the time of his internment in Japan during World War II, Blyth wrote assiduously. In the 1950's, his "ZEN IN ENGLISH LITERATURE" and "ORIENTAL CLASSICS" and "HAIKU" reached enthusiastic readers in America and Europe. Aldous Huxley describes Blyth's work as "illuminating." As William J. Higginson writes in his "HAIKU HANDBOOK," thanks to Blyth "a new interest in Japanese Haiku began to grow among poets of the immediate post World War II generation." . Blyth's Contribution to cross-cultural understanding was manifold. In 1945, Blyth assumed a post as professor of English at Tokyo's Gakushuin University, the former Peers' School. For almost twenty years he tutored Crown Prince Akihito, the present Emperor. Blyth played a leading role in Emperor Hirohito's historical declaration of January 1, 1946, that he was a human being rather than a god. Blyth edited numerous writings from English and American literature, making them available to avid Japanese readers. **** BIBLIOGRAPHY: * Zen in English Literature and Oriental Classics, The Hokuseido Press, 1942 Haiku, 1949-1952, in four volumes: Vol.1: Eastern Culture. Vol.2: Spring. Vol.3: Summer-Autumn. Vol.4: Autumn-Winter. The Hokuseido Press . Japanese Satirical Verses, The Hokuseido Press, 1949 Japanese Humour, Japan Travel Bureau, 1957 Japanese Life and Character in Senryu, 1959. Oriental Humor, 1959. . Zen and Zen Classics, in five volumes: Vol.1: General Introduction,from the Upanishads to . Huineng.1960. Vol.2: History of Zen.1964. Vol.3: History of Zen.1970. Vol.4: Mumonkan.1966. Vol.5: Twenty-Five Zen Essays.1962. The Hokuseido Press. [Note: this set's numbering is complicated, see us for complete information on what comprises a full set.] . Edo Satirical Verse Anthologies, 1961. The Hokuseido Press. A History of Haiku in two volumes: Vol.1: From the Beginnings up to Issa. Vol.2: From Issa up to the Present.1963.The Hokuseido Press. Games Zen Masters Play: Writings of R. H. Blyth, 1976. * For more on Blyth see Wikipedia:.