{"product_id":"books-embracing-the-firebird-by-janine-beichman","title":"Embracing the Firebird","description":"\u003cp\u003eHow did a girl from the provinces, meant to do nothing more than run the family store, become a bold and daring poet whose life and work helped change the idea of love in modern Japan? \u003ci\u003eEmbracing the Firebird\u003c\/i\u003e is the first book-length study in English of the early life and work of Yosano Akiko (1879-1942), the most famous post-classical woman poet of Japan. It follows Akiko, who was born into a merchant family in the port city of Sakai near Osaka, from earliest childhood to her twenties, charting the slow process of development before the seemingly sudden metamorphosis.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Akiko's later poetry has now begun to win long-overdue recognition, but in terms of literary history the impact of \u003ci\u003eMidaregami\u003c\/i\u003e (\u003ci\u003eTangled Hair\u003c\/i\u003e, 1901), her first book, still overshadows everything else she wrote, for it brought individualism to traditional tanka poetry with a tempestuous force and passion found in no other work of the period. \u003ci\u003eEmbracing the Firebird\u003c\/i\u003e traces Akiko's emotional and artistic development up to the publication of this seminal work, which became a classic of modern Japanese poetry and marked the starting point of Akiko's forty-year-long career as a writer. It then examines \u003ci\u003eTangled Hair\u003c\/i\u003e itself, the characteristics that make it a unified work of art, and its originality.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The study throughout includes Janine Beichman's elegant translations of poems by Yosano Akiko (both those included in \u003ci\u003eTangled Hair\u003c\/i\u003e and those not), as well as poems by contemporaries such as Yosano Tekkan, Yamakawa Tomiko, and others.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53771462312209,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/books-embracing-the-firebird-by-janine-beichman","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}