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Paperback Embracing the Firebird: Yosano Akiko and the Birth of the Female Voice in Modern Japanese Poetry Book

ISBN: 0824823478

ISBN13: 9780824823474

Embracing the Firebird: Yosano Akiko and the Birth of the Female Voice in Modern Japanese Poetry

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How did a girl from the provinces, meant to do nothing more than run the family store, become a bold and daring poet whose life and work helped change the idea of love in modern Japan? Embracing the Firebird is the first book-length study in English of the early life and work of Yosano Akiko (1879-1942), the most famous post-classical woman poet of Japan. It follows Akiko, who was born into a merchant family in the port city of Sakai near Osaka,...

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