Autumn Wind Haiku: Selected Poems by Kobayashi Issa (Paperback)

~ Lewis MacKenzie (Author) "This verse accompanies the self-portrait which appears on the title page..." (more)
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The best of a haiku master's verse--earthy, vigorous, funny, and resonant--in English and Japanese, with commentary and short biography. 250 haiku in English and Japanese.

About the Author

Lewis Mackenzie (Duncan Lewis Mackenzie Macfarlane) first came to Japan as a child in a ship commanded by his father. After some years as a seafarer, he went ashore and worked in Indonesia and later Australia, where he was employed as a schoolmaster and also wrote verse for the Sydney Bulletin. Mackenzie spent several more years at sea before he and his wife moved to Japan in 1936. They lived in Tokyo and Kobe and made numerous excursions into the countryside. After serving in Malaya and New Guinea during World War II, he returned with his wife to Japan and lived in Yokohama from 1947 to 1962, again travelling a great deal in rural Japan. With his friend, Professor Toshio Namba--author of several books in Japanese on Robert Burns--Mackenzie has given talks on the similarities between the poetry of Issa and that of the Scottish poet. He now resides in Britain.

Product Details

• Paperback: 137 pages
• Publisher: Kodan-Sha Intl (September 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 4770024738
• ISBN-13: 978-4770024732
• Product Dimensions: 7.2 x 4.6 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5 ounces
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