tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-786207835641480928.post252140856921158669..comments2024-03-28T12:59:41.910-04:00Comments on NeverEnding Story: A Room of My Own: A Dedication To You, the ReaderChen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐http://www.blogger.com/profile/06235248170011255532noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-786207835641480928.post-18522456216732141942013-09-23T09:33:12.839-04:002013-09-23T09:33:12.839-04:00The haiku aesthetics conveyed in the opening prose...The haiku aesthetics conveyed in the opening prose paragraph of Winter Thoughts are uncritically accepted by most of the ELH editiors/poets.<br /><br />In his Chapter one, entitled Masaoka Shiki, especially in its subsection, “Three Ways of Sketching from Life,” Ueda emphasizes the three stages of the employment of the “shasei” concept : Shasei for beginning poets to portray objective beauty, selective realism for experience poets to reveal their individuality, and makoto for masters to demonstrate basic truthfulness to things/their ideals from internal, psychological reality (By the way, this concept reminds me of Aoyagi's Haiku of Inner Landscape, accessed at http://www.modernhaiku.org/essays/Lanoue-FayAoyagiHaiku.html) <br /><br />Sadly, Shiki died so young and didn’t leave researchers enough notes, articles, or his haiku to explore his concept of “makoto” to the fullest extent. <br /> <br />If you’re interested in understanding the sociopolitical-cultural context of Shiki’s shasei poetics: <br /><br />Here are some good essays/book chapters: <br /><br />1) Chapter One, Modern Japanese Poets and the Nature of Literature by Makoto Ueda <br />2) Intro., Modern Japanese Haiku: An Anthology by Makoto Ueda <br />3) Masaoka Shiki and Modern Reception in Chapter 2, Traces of dreams:landscape, cultural memory, and the poetry of Bashō by Haruo Shirane <br />4) Buson and Shiki (Two parts: part I mainly about Buson and part II about Shiki), Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, Vol. 44, No. 2, Dec., 1984. These two essays are must-reads for the study of the modernization of Japanese haiku, of the aesthetic relationships between Basho, Buson, and Shiku.<br /><br />This issue regarding the shasei aesthetics will be further discussed in my forthcoming 'To the Lighthouse' post.Chen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐https://www.blogger.com/profile/06235248170011255532noreply@blogger.com