Chiyo-ni: Woman Haiku Master. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR by Donegan, Patricia; Ishibashi, Yoshie - 1998

Tuttle Publishing, 1998. Soft cover. Good/No jacket. First Edition. Spine is shaken, but binding is secure. Cover is worn. Bottom corner of pages 1-21 are creased, but inside is otherwise clean and unmarked.

No Dust JacketBook: Small barely detectable ships on panel edges, very light shelf rubs seen only in refracted light. No page toning. No cracks on the spine. No marks or entriesThirty illustrations and one map.The photographs shown are actual photos of the offered book.ISBN is present and undisturbed along with the listed retail U.S. price (photo).From Wikipedia: Fukuda Chiyo-ni (福田 千代尼, 1703 - 2 October 1775) or Kaga no Chiyo (加賀 千代女) was a Japanese poet of the Edo period and a Buddhist nun. She is widely regarded as one of the greatest poets of haiku (then called hokku). Some of Chiyo's best works include The Morning Glory, Putting up my hair, and Again the women.

Being one of the few women haiku poets in pre-modern Japanese literature, Chiyo-ni has been seen an influential figure. Before her time, haiku by women were often dismissed and ignored. She began writing Haiku at seven and by age seventeen she had become very popular all over Japan and she continued writing… Read More

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Tokyo, Boston, Singapore: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1998. Stated First Edition. Softcover. Near Fine. 280 pp. including Notes and Bibliography. A wee bit of shelfwear and very very light rubbing to corners, previous owner's name and address to half-title page. Overall, tight and bright copy of this quite scarce first book in English on a woman haiku poet. First book in English on a woman Haiku poet. "Chiyo-ni (1703-1775) also known as Kaga no Chiyo, is perhaps Japan's most celebrated female haiku poet. A student of two of Basho's disciples, she worked in an age when haiku was largely a male domain. As a poet, painter, and Buddhist nun, she lived a vibrant life while creating poems of crystalline clarity and delicate sensuality. "...more than one hundred translations of her finest seasonal haiku, renku (linked verse), and haibun (travel poems). Most of the poems appear here for the first time in English..."