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Japanese Haiku
Japanese Haiku
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This is a short collection of a couple of hundred Japanese Haiku. This was [originally] printed by the art book small press, Peter Pauper. In the original each haiku is accompanied by one of 59 Japanese seals. These seals are reproduced here. The divisions in the body of the text are arbitrary and were not in the original book. (Quote from sa... more »
About the Author
Richard Gordon Smith (1858 - 1918)
Richard Gordon Smith (1858-1918) was an English animal hunter who earlier had spent time in France, Canada, and Norway. He had a falling out from his wife of eighteen years and, as divorce at the time was neither desirable nor respectable, he left to travel full-time, first-class. Throughout his travels he kept a series of eight large leather-bound diaries emblazoned with exotic illustrations and filled with mementoes from all over the world. After Ceylon and Burma, he arrived in Nagasaki harbor on Christmas Eve 1897. He left Japan in February 1900, heading back to England via New Guinea and Fiji, but he came down with a fever and abandoned the trip, returning to Japan instead. Gordon Smith did go back to England briefly in 1903, returning to Japan that year via Singapore and China. Later he left from Kobe, again to England via Ceylon, in early 1905. He was back in Kyoto by the year's end. Transcribing folktales and myths ever more in his diaries, he also collected some mammals for the British Museum. In 1908 his Ancient Tales and Folklore of Japan was published, but was not successful. His last diary entry was in September 1915, his health undermined by beriberi and malaria. (Quote from (Quote from (Quote from (Quote from (Quote from phoenixbonsai.com)))))
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Author:
This is a short collection of a couple of hundred Japanese Haiku. This was [originally] printed by the art book small press, Peter Pauper. In the original each haiku is accompanied by one of 59 Japanese seals. These seals are reproduced here. The divisions in the body of the text are arbitrary and were not in the original book. (Quote from sa... more »
About the Author
Richard Gordon Smith (1858 - 1918)
Richard Gordon Smith (1858-1918) was an English animal hunter who earlier had spent time in France, Canada, and Norway. He had a falling out from his wife of eighteen years and, as divorce at the time was neither desirable nor respectable, he left to travel full-time, first-class. Throughout his travels he kept a series of eight large leather-bound diaries emblazoned with exotic illustrations and filled with mementoes from all over the world. After Ceylon and Burma, he arrived in Nagasaki harbor on Christmas Eve 1897. He left Japan in February 1900, heading back to England via New Guinea and Fiji, but he came down with a fever and abandoned the trip, returning to Japan instead. Gordon Smith did go back to England briefly in 1903, returning to Japan that year via Singapore and China. Later he left from Kobe, again to England via Ceylon, in early 1905. He was back in Kyoto by the year's end. Transcribing folktales and myths ever more in his diaries, he also collected some mammals for the British Museum. In 1908 his Ancient Tales and Folklore of Japan was published, but was not successful. His last diary entry was in September 1915, his health undermined by beriberi and malaria. (Quote from (Quote from (Quote from (Quote from (Quote from phoenixbonsai.com)))))
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ISBN-13: 9780559119927
ISBN-10: 0559119925
Publication Date: 4/29/2009
Pages: 66
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ISBN-10: 0559119925
Publication Date: 4/29/2009
Pages: 66
Rating: ?
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Publisher: BiblioBazaar
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
Members Wishing: 1
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Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
Members Wishing: 1
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