The Winter Sun Shines in: A Life of Masaoka Shiki by Donald Keene

The Winter Sun Shines in: A Life of Masaoka Shiki

Asia Perspectives: History, Society, and Culture

Donald Keene

240 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction biography poetry informative reflective slow-paced
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Rather than resist the vast social and cultural changes sweeping Japan in the nineteenth century, the poet Masaoka Shiki (1867-1902) instead incorporated new Western influences into his country's native haiku and tanka verse. By reinvigorating the...

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