History Of Japanese Poetry
History Of Japanese Poetry
Japanese poets first encountered Chinese poetry when it was at its peak in the Tang Dynasty between 600-900 A.D. It took them many hundreds of years to digest the foreign impact and make it a part of their culture. They eventually merged it with their literary tradition in their own language and begin to develop the diversity of their native poetry.
Here are some terms pertaining to Japanese poetry: Kojiki -The oldest written work in Japanese literature Nihon Shoki - The second oldest book of classical Japanese history Man yoshu - The oldest poetic anthology of waka. It is a 20 volume piece Kanshi - Poetry written in Chinese by Japanese What Japanese poetry follows a pattern of 5-7-5 syllables? That would be Haiku. In Japanese, haiku are traditionally printed in a single vertical line, while haiku in English usually appear in three lines, to parallel the three phrases of Japanese haiku. The Modern era A new wave came from the West when Japan was introduced to European and American poetry. This poetry belonged to a very different tradition and was regarded by Japanese poets as a form without any boundaries. Shintai-shi and Jiyu-shi emerged around this time. A list of well-known modern Japanese poets:
- Yosano Akiko
- Kyoshi Takahama
- Masaoka Shiki
- Taneda Santoka
- Takamura Kotaro
- Ishikawa Takuboku
- Hagiwara Sakutaro
- Kenji Miyazawa
- Noguchi Yonejiro
- Tanikawa Shuntaro
- Kitahara Hakushu
A list of early Japanese poets:
- Kakinomoto no Hitomaro
- Ariwara no Narihira
- Ono no Komachi
- Izumi Shikibu
- Saigyo
- Fujiwara no Teika
- Matsuo Basho
- Yosa Buson
- Yokoi Yayu
- Kobayashi Issa
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