Tag: Japanese poetry

A review of Women: 20 Japanese Female Poets / 20 Waka Poems edited by Naoko Fujimoto

Juicy might seem an odd word to apply to a sophisticated layering of multiple renderings and contextual frameworks of ancient waka poetry. But through Fujimoto’s arresting haibun paragraphs, interpretive and spacious translations, and visual/graphic pieces that stand on their own right, these 20 women poets, and the eras they lived in, come to life in vivid, haunting detail.