Thousand Petals. Jinna Johnson


Thousand Petals - Jinna Johnson


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      A Thousand Petals

      A THOUSAND PETALS

      ——Haiku and Tanka——

      by

       JINNA JOHNSON

      Charles E. Tuttle Company

       RUTLAND VERMONT: TOKYO JAPAN

      Representatives

      FOR CONTINENTAL EUROPE

       Boxerbooks, Inc., Zurich

      FOR THE BRITISH ISLES

       Prentice-Hall International, Inc., London

      FOR AUSTRALASIA

       Paul Flesch & Co., Pty. Ltd., Melbourne

      FOR CANADA

       M. G. Hurtig Ltd., Edmonton

      Published by the Charles E. Tuttle Company, Inc.

       of Rutland, Vermont & Tokyo, Japan

       with editorial offices at

       Osaki Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo 141-0032

      Copyright in Japan, 1971

       by Charles E. Tuttle Company, Inc.

      All rights reserved

      Library of Congress Catalog Card No: 75-134033

       ISBN: 978-1-4629-1242-1 (ebook)

      First printing, 1971

       Second printing, 1971

      PRINTED IN JAPAN

       Table of Contents

       Preface

       HAIKU

       Trees and Leaves

       Wind and Water

       Snow

       The Beauty of Spring

       Flowers and Plants

       Insects

       Animals and Birds

       Children

       Thoughts

       Miscellany

       TANKA

       Preface

      My delight in the two forms of Japanese poetry called tanka and haiku stems from their ability to convey the warmth and color of small thoughts with a sensitive awareness of life's common, everyday objects and occurrences.

      There is little doubt that the poetic spirit is deeply felt by the Japanese people at large, who compose poems at all ages and in all walks of life, whenever there is a moment extra, either alone or at gatherings of two or more persons. They even compose poems for a yearly contest decreed by the emperor. Poetry has provided a source of relaxation to all who read it, and the artistic Japanese have developed through these poems a unique aesthetic pleasure by fusing a subtle transference of thought with an emotional experience.

      A formal plot is unnecessary for these two poetic forms. The tone is usually that of mild humor and gentle melancholy created around a central image by the use of small details. For instance, the perfume of a flower or the stirring of the wind may be mentioned, resulting in a nucleus from which innumerable pictures can be evolved. The interpretations are made by the reader, who also has the pleasure of forming the picture as a whole because of the elusive ending. Thus a total theme can be recognized. There is an instinctive reluctance to say the obvious, and the unexpressed is understood as well as the expressed. Emotion is smoothed away and is considered indecorous. Very few poems are written in an indignant vein or contain religious fervor, and few touch on ethics. This leaves a limited variety of subjects, of which nature predominates. Rhyme is avoided and poetry reduced to the formal rule of the number of syllables used. Tanka have thirty-one syllables, divided into five lines of 5-7-5-7-7 syllables. Haiku are composed of seventeen syllables, three lines in the order of 5-7-5 syllables, and are comparatively new, having been derived from tanka in the late 1600's.

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