Yosa Buson, born in 1716 and dead on 17 January 1784, occupies a singular place in Japanese culture: he was at once one of the supreme masters of haiku, a major painter of the Edo period, an editor and teacher, a student of literary history, and a deliberate maker of artistic personae. Along with Matsuo Bashō and Kobayashi Issa, he is regularly named among the three greatest poets of the classical haiku tradition. Su…
“Haikai values the use of common language yet departing from the common. To depart from the common while still using the common: the method of departure from the common is most difficult.”
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Meng Haoran, one of the defining poets of China’s High Tang age, was born around 689 or 690 and died in 740. His life unfolded during the long and brilliant reign of Emperor Xuanzong, an era remembered for imperial confidence, commercial vitality, religious pluralism, and an extraordinary flowering of poetry. Yet Meng’s achievement is distinctive precisely because he did not chiefly write about the glitter of the cap…
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