A samurai's pink house /
The poems in A Samurai's Pink House are threaded with the transformation of the seasons from Matsuo Basho's travels to a love affair between a kabuki cross-dresser and a lonely geisha and the struggles of women in ancient and modern-day Japan. The collection takes the reader on a journey t...
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Toronto, Canada :
Inanna Publications and Education Inc.,
2017
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| Series: | Inanna poetry & fiction series
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Praise; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Also By; Contents; The Obedient; When Men Aren't Enough; Shielded Memories; The Last Female Samurai; Obon Conception; Photograph of Self; In the Hot Spring of Healing; Unhonourable Fantasy; Kyoto's Koyo; A Samurai's Pink House; Modern Matsushima; Bashō's Haiku Goes to the Frogs; White Pink Yellow; Grief; The Red Bridge; The Kitchen Worker; Was Bashō a Vegetarian?; a passing dog; An Advanced Thinker; A Holy Scroll; The Miko; Turn of Summer; A Buddhist Monk in an Izakaya; The Maiko's Obi; Pink Moonlight; The Kabuki Actor
- Cover; Praise; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Also By; Contents; The Obedient; When Men Aren't Enough; Shielded Memories; The Last Female Samurai; Obon Conception; Photograph of Self; In the Hot Spring of Healing; Unhonourable Fantasy; Kyoto's Koyo; A Samurai's Pink House; Modern Matsushima; Bashō's Haiku Goes to the Frogs; White Pink Yellow; Grief; The Red Bridge; The Kitchen Worker; Was Bashō a Vegetarian?; a passing dog; An Advanced Thinker; A Holy Scroll; The Miko; Turn of Summer; A Buddhist Monk in an Izakaya; The Maiko's Obi; Pink Moonlight; The Kabuki Actor
- Foreign foodThe Art of Patience; The Return to Ancestral Graves; Another Farewell; scattered leaves; In the Milky Way; Zen Concentration; The Great Buddha; morning walk; saffron crocus; Ancient World; country road; Conquering Fuji-san; Midnight Baths; homemade baklava; Gifts from Grandchildren; Basic Commodities; afternoon tea; The Letter; Winter on the First Day of Spring; first day of winter; Spring in Northern Japan; a pink petal; indigo sky; Hokkaido Hot Springs; A Fisherman's Love; A Lost Soldier; Typhoon Season; An Elephant Ride; Hanami in Spring; Author's Note; Acknowledgements
- The Kabuki Cross-dresserSpring; Tokyo Kabuki; Geisha Meet Onnagata; a couple in kimono; Leaving the Geisha House; beyond; On Sharing the Details of Her Mizuage; Candescent; The Single Geisha; Autumn's Emptiness; cats make loud love; old futon bed; Cupid's Aim; A Geisha's Shamisen; folded origami; The Red Light District; Kimono Days; Sendai; Best Fortune; Something More; The Scarecrow; Sunrise on a Train; Late Night Train; The Music Teacher; Love; Snow Angels; Blue Rooftops; alone on new year's; a solitary life; sittingaloneonthecrammedtrain; The Language of Frogs; The Long Commute