Net of Fireflies. Harold Stewart
A NET OF FIREFLIES
A NET OF FIREFLIES
JAPANESE HAIKU AND HAIKU PAINTINGS
with verse translations
and an essay
by
HAROLD STEWART
CHARLES E. TUTTLE COMPANY: PUBLISHERS
Rutland, Vermont Tokyo, Japan
Published by
the Charles E. Tuttle Company, Inc.
of Rutland, Vermont & Tokyo, Japan
with editorial offices at
Osaki Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo 141-0032.
© 1960 by Charles E. Tuttle Publishing Co., Inc.
All rights reserved
LCC Card No. 60-15603
ISBN 978-1-4629-0121-0
First edition, 1960
Twenty-fifth printing, 1986
First giftbook edition, 1993
Second printing, 1996
PRINTED IN JAPAN
TABLE OF CONTENTS | ||
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS : | page 7 | |
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS : | 9 | |
1 | SPRING : | 11 |
2 | SUMMER : | 37 |
3 | AUTUMN : | 63 |
4 | WINTER : | 89 |
ON HAIKU AND HAIGA: AN ESSAY : | 115 | |
SPIRIT AND SUBSTANCE : | 117 | |
FORM AND TECHNIQUE : | 128 | |
PRINCIPLES AND PROBLEMS OF TRANSLATION : | 147 | |
NOTES : | 167 | |
BIBLIOGRAPHY : | 171 | |
INDEX OF AUTHORS AND TITLES : | 173 |
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS | ||
1. | STARRY NIGHT by Tomoda Sōgyo : | frontispiece |
2. | PLUM-BLOSSOMS THROUGH A HERMITAGE WINDOW by Nakamura Fusetsu : | page 15 |
3. | SHOOTS OF THE HORSETAIL PLANT by Saitō Shōshû : | 16 |
4. | MOUNTAIN TEMPLE IN SPRING by Suzuki Koson : | 21 |
5. | DEMON AND VIOLETS by Nishi Ôshû : | 22 |
6. | WALKING ALONE IN SPRING by Okano Sakae : | 27 |
7. | TADPOLES IN SPRING WATERS by Kosugi Misei : | 28 |
8. | LISTENING TO THE SKYLARK by Shibahara Kaizô : | 33 |
9. | FALLING PETALS AND PARASOL by Kikakudô Kiichi : | 34 |
10. | HIGH CLOUDS AT NOON by Ogawa Senô : | 41 |
11. | RIVER BREEZE by Ishikawa Kinichirô : | 42 |
12. | BATH IN SUMMER by Ôta Saburô : | 47 |
13. | SONG OF A SUMMER SHOWER by Yûki Somei : | 48 |
14. | SUDDEN DOWNPOUR by Shibahara Kaizô : | 53 |
15. | SHY RAINBOW by Hirafuku Hayakusui : | 34 |
16. | CHORUS OF CICADAS AFTER RAIN by Okano Sakae : | 59 |
17. | PUMPKIN HARVEST by Sasaki Rimpû : | 60 |
18. | AUTUMN IN A MOUNTAIN VILLAGE by Ishikawa Kin ichirô : | 67 |
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