For All My Walking: Free-Verse Haiku of Taneda Santoka by Santoka Taneda (Englis

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Taneda Santoka's poetry attracted limited notice during his lifetime (1882-1940), but there has been a remarkable upsurge of interest in his life and writings. Including 245 poems and selected diary excerpts, For All My Walking makes Santoka's work available to English-speaking readers.

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In April 1926, the Japanese poet Taneda Santoka (1882–1940) set off on the first of many walking trips, journeys in which he tramped thousands of miles through the Japanese countryside. These journeys were part of his religious training as a Buddhist monk as well as literary inspiration for his memorable and often painfully moving poems. The works he wrote during this time comprise a record of his quest for spiritual enlightenment.Although Santoka was master of conventional-style haiku, which he wrote in his youth, the vast majority of his works, and those for which he is most admired, are in free-verse form. He also left a number of diaries in which he frequently recorded the circumstances that had led to the composition of a particular poem or group of poems. In For All My Walking, master translator Burton Watson makes Santoka's life story and literary journeys available to English-speaking readers and students of haiku and Zen Buddhism. He allows us to meet Santoka directly, not by withholding his own opinions but by leaving room for us to form our own. Watson's translations bring across not only the poetry but also the emotional force at the core of the poems. This volume includes 245 of Santoka's poems and of excerpts from his prose diary, along with a chronology of his life and a compelling introduction that provides historical and biographical context to Taneda Santoka's work.

Notes

Watson's translations are marvels of economy and directness, as are many of the original poems, and the biographic portion of the introduction is particularly satisfying in its sympathetic presentation of a whole, complex, likeable, and occasionally irritating man. -- Amy Heinrich, director, C. V. Starr East Asian Library, Columbia University Burton Watson begins with an excellent review of the haiku and its modern history, then goes on to Taneda Santoka himself, his poetry and his life. By the time the translations arrive, we feel thoroughly at home. A valuable introduction to a major haiku poet, this is a book that will appeal to anyone interested in haiku, both for study and pure pleasure. -- Janine Beichman, Daito Bunka University

Author Biography

Burton Watson's translations include The Selected Poems of Du Fu, The Lotus Sutra, The Vimalakirti Sutra, Ryokan: Zen Monk-Poet of Japan, Saigyo: Poems of a Mountain Home, and The Columbia Book of Chinese Poetry: From Early Times to the Thirteenth Century, all published by Columbia.

Table of Contents

Chronology of the Life of Taneda Santoka Introduction Poems and Diary Entries Bibliography of Works in English

Review

This book enhances, rather than replaces, what has gone before. -- David Burleigh Modern Haiku

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Taneda Santoka's poetry attracted limited notice during his lifetime (1882-1940), but there has been a remarkable upsurge of interest in his life and writings. Including 245 poems and selected diary excerpts, For All My Walking makes Santoka's work available to English-speaking readers.

Review Quote

"Translator Burton Watson's helpful introduction provides a brief biography that describes Santoka's tragic family life prior to his ordination and locates his innovative style with Japanese poetics." -- Buddhadharma

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Taneda Santoka's poetry attracted limited notice during his lifetime (1882-1940), but there has been a remarkable upsurge of interest in his life and writings. Including 245 poems and selected diary excerpts, For All My Walking makes Santoka's work available to English-speaking readers.

Details ISBN023112516X Author Burton Watson Short Title FOR ALL MY WALKING Pages 128 Publisher Columbia University Press Language English Translator Burton Watson ISBN-10 023112516X ISBN-13 9780231125161 Media Book Format Hardcover Year 2003 Imprint Columbia University Press Subtitle Free-Verse Haiku of Taneda Santoka Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States Translated from Japanese Birth 1925 DOI 10.1604/9780231125161 UK Release Date 2003-11-12 AU Release Date 2003-11-12 NZ Release Date 2003-11-12 US Release Date 2003-11-12 Series Modern Asian Literature Series Publication Date 2003-11-12 DEWEY 895.6144 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this

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