Women Poets of Japan

Women Poets of Japan von Ikuko Atsumi (Herausgeber), Kenneth Rexroth (Herausgeber), New Directions, 1982

In this collection (originally published by The Seabury Press in 1977 as The Burning Heart), Kenneth Rexroth and Ikuko Atsumi have assembled representative works of seventy-seven poets. Starting with the Classical Period (645-1604 A.D.), characterized by the wanka and tanka styles, followed by haiku poets of the Tokugawa period (to 1867), the subsequent modern tanka and haiku poets, and including the contemporary school of free verse, Women Poets of Japan records twelve hundred years of poetic accomplishment. Included are biographical notes on the individual poets, an essay on Japanese women and literature, and a table of historical periods.

Table of Contents

• Authors’ Note

CLASSIC POETS

• Princess Nukada (7th Century)
• Empress Jitō (645-702)
• Ōtomo no Sakanoe no Iratsume (8th Century)
• Yosami, Wife of Hitomaro (8th Century)
• Lady Kii (8th Century)
• Kasa no Iratsume (8th Century)
• Ono no Komachi (9th Century)
• Lady Ise (9-10th Century)
• Shirome (10th Century)
• Lady Ukon (10th Century)
• Murasaki Shikibu (974-1031)
• Akazome Emon (?—1027)
• Sei Shōnagon (10th Century)
• Mother of Michitsuna (10th Century)
• Daini.no Sanmi (10-11 th Century)
• Izumi Shikibu (11th Century)
• Ise Tayū (11th Century)
• Lady Sagami (11th Century)
• Lady Suwo (ll-12th Century)
• Princess Shikishi (?—1201)
• Kenrei Mon-in Ukyō no Daibu (12th Century)
• Giō (12th Century)
• Yokobue (12th Century)
• Shizuka (12th Century)
• Lady Horikawa (12th Century)
• The Daughter of Minamoto no Toshitaka (12th Century)
• Shunzei’s Daughter (1171?—1252?)
• Abutsu-Ni (1209-1283)

HAIKU POETS OF THE TOKUGAWA PERIOD

• Kawai Chigetsu-Ni (1632-1736)
• Den Sute-Jo (1633-1698)
• Ōme Shushiki (1668-1725)
• Chine-Jo (Frau Chine) (Late 17th Century)
• Fukuda Chiyo-Ni (1703-1775)
• Ukihashi (Late 17th Century)
• Enomoto Seifu-Jo (1731-1814)
• Matsumoto Koyu-Ni (Late 18th Century)
• Imaizumi Sogetsu-Ni (?—1804)
• Tagami Kikusha-Ni (1752-1826)

MODERN TANKA POETS

• Yosano Akiko (1878-1942)
• Yamakawa Tomiko (1879-1909)
• Chino Masako (1880-1946)
• Kujō Takeko (1887-1928)
• Okamoto Kanoko (1889-1939)
• Gotō Miyoko (1898- )
• Hatsui Shizue (1900- )
• Anryū Suharu (1923- )
• Baba Akiko (1928- )

MODERN HAIKU POETS

• Sugita Hisajo (1890-1946)
• Mitsuhashi Takajo (1899-1972)
• Hashimoto Takako (1899-1963)
• Nakamura Teijo (1900- )
• Hoshino Tatsuko (1903- )
• Yagi Mikajo (1924- )

FREE VERSE POETS

• Yosano Akiko (1878-1942)
• Fukao Sumako (1893-1974)
• Hayashi Fumiko (1904-1951)
• Nagase Kiyoko (1906- )
• Nakamura Chio (1913- )
• Takada Toshiko (1916- )
• Takiguchi Masako (1918- )
• Mitsui Futabako (1919- )
• Ishigaki Rin (1920- )
• Shindō Chie (1920- )
• Ibaragi Noriko (1926- )
• Fukunaka Tomoko (1928- )
• Fukui Hisako (1929- )
• Shinkawa Kazue (1929- )
• Inoue Michiko (?- )
• Tada Chimako (1930- )
• Shiraishi Kazuko (1931- )
• Yoshihara Sachiko (1932- )
• Kōra Rumiko (1932- )
• Tomioka Taeko (1935- )
• Yoshiyuki Rie (1939- )
• Atsumi lkuko (1940- )
• Kanai Mieko (1947- )
• Nishi Junko (?- )

Appendix

• I. Notes on the Poets
• II. The Women Poets of Japan—A Brief Survey
• III. Table of Japanese Historical Periods