Intro to Haiku
An Anthology of Poems and Poets From Basho to Shiki
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group · Print & ebook · October 20, 1958
Harold G. Henderson was, from 1927 to 1929, the Assistant to the Curator of Far Eastern Art at the Metropolitan Musuem of Art.
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- Who it’s for
- Meet haiku through an anthology spanning poets from Basho to Shiki.
- Themes
- Haiku poetry, Poems and poets
- Genres
- Haiku, Japanese Poetry, Poetry Anthologies
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Harold G. Henderson was, from 1927 to 1929, the Assistant to the Curator of Far Eastern Art at the Metropolitan Musuem of Art. In 1930 he went to Japan, where he lived the following three years. On his return to this country he joined the faculty at Columbia University, where he taught Japanese and initiated a course in the history of Japanese art. He retired in 1955.
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His published works include The Bamboo Broom, Surviving Works of Sharaku (with Louis V. Ledoux), and A Handbook of Japanese Grammar. He has also translated H. Minamoto's Illustrated History of Japanese Art, etc. Mr. Henderson lives in New York City.
A Haiku Lineage
Meet haiku through an anthology spanning poets from Basho to Shiki.
Come here for
- A focused path into Japanese poetry
- A gathering of poems and poets across generations
Expect
- Haiku in an anthology format
- A span from Basho to Shiki
Where it sits
| Haiku | 81% |
|---|---|
| Japanese Poetry | 71% |
| Poetry Anthologies | 44% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Japanese Literary Collections
- Japanese Poetry
- Haiku
- Authors
- Harold Gould Henderson
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Published
- October 20, 1958
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Haiku poetry · Poems and poets
- Reading lane
- Japanese Literary Collections