Poetry of Chiyo-ni Publisher / Fox Galleries Bursting with practical techniques

Bursting with practical techniques

Miho Kajioka

This is a deceptively simple game with life-changing consequences

an easy-to-navigate timeline and suggestions for further reading

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Poetry of Chiyo-ni Publisher / Fox Galleries Bursting with practical techniquesChiyo ni (1703 1775), also known as Kaga no Chiyo, is Japan's most celebrated female haiku poet. A student of Basho's disciples, she worked in an age when haiku was largely a male domain. As a poet, painter, and Buddhist nun, she lived a vibrant life while creating poems of crystalline clarity and delicate sensuality. This volume presents more than one hundred of her finest seasonal haiku, renku (linked verse) and haibun (travel poems). The collected