Far Beyond the Field: Haiku by Japanese Women
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Far Beyond the Field is a first-of-its-kind anthology of haiku by Japanese women, collecting translations of four hundred haiku written by twenty poets from the seventeenth century to the present. By arranging the poems chronologically, Makoto Ueda has created an overview of the way in which this enigmatic seventeen-syllable form has been used and experimented with during different eras. At the same time, the reader is admitted to the often marginalized world of female experience in Japan, revealing voices every bit as rich and colorful, and perhaps even more lyrical and erotic, than those found in male haiku.
PrefaceIntroductionDen Sutejo (1633-1698)1Kawai Chigetsu (1634?-1718)13Shiba Sonome (1664-1726)25Chiyojo (1703-1775)37Enomoto Seifu (1732-1815)49Tagami Kikusha (1753-1826)61Takeshita Shizunojo (1887-1951)73Sugita Hisajo (1890-1946)85Hashimoto Takako (1899-1963)97Mitsuhashi Takajo (1899-1972)109Ishibashi Hideno (1909-1947)121Katsura Nobuko (b. 1914)133Yoshino Yoshiko (b. 1915)145Tsuda Kiyoko (b. 1920)157Inahata Teiko (b. 1931)169Uda Kiyoko (b. 1935)181Kuroda Momoko (b. 1938)193Tsuji Momoko (b. 1945)205Katayama Yumiko (b. 1952)217Mayuzumi Madoka (b. 1965)229Selected Bibliography241
