The Santoka: versions by Scott Watson

The Santoka: versions by Scott Watson
  ISBN 4-915948-41-2  C0098
illustration: by Ed Baker
publication: 2005
softcover, 41pp, 180x228mm
$15.00 (Japan Yen 1,500)

From the Preface

This book is made of selections which previously appeared in the Tohoku Gakuin Review under the titles Weeds We'd Wed: English versions of more than fifty haiku by Taneda Santoka and A Life to Live: Santoka.

Note

Taneda Santoka, born 1882 - died 1940.

Comment

Scott Watson presents each haiku in Japanese (kana and kanji) followed by his English versions. Explanation is added where needed.

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