ISBN10: 0804820538, ISBN13: 9780804820530, [publisher: Tuttle Publishing] Softcover
[Sioux Falls, SD, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1998]

New. Well packaged and promptly shipped from California. US veteran operated. ISBN 0804820538 9780804820530 [US]

Tuttle Publishing 1998 Soft cover Good. No jacket First Edition. Spine is shaken, but binding is secure. Cover is worn. Bottom corner of pages 1-21 are creased, but inside is otherwise clean and unmarked.

ISBN10: 0804820538, ISBN13: 9780804820530, [publisher: Tuttle Publishing 1998-09-15] Softcover First Edition 0804820538
[AUSTIN, TX, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1998]

Tuttle Publishing 1998 Trade paperback New Well packaged and promptly shipped from California. US veteran operated.

ISBN10: 0804820538, ISBN13: 9780804820530, [publisher: Tuttle Publishing] Softcover First Edition
[Madison, WI, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1998]

ISBN10: 0804820538, ISBN13: 9780804820530, [publisher: Charles E. Tuttle Company, Tokyo, Boston, Singapore] Softcover First Edition 280 pp. including Notes and Bibliography. A wee bit of shelfwear and very very light rubbing to corners, previous owner's name and address to half-title page. Overall, tight and bright copy of this quite scarce first book in English on a woman haiku poet. First book in English on a woman Haiku poet. "Chiyo-ni (1703-1775) also known as Kaga no Chiyo, is perhaps Japan's most celebrated female haiku poet. A student of two 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. ".more than one hundred translations of her finest seasonal haiku, renku (linked verse), and haibun (travel poems). Most of the poems appear here for the first time in English."
[EUGENE, OR, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1998]
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Tokyo, Boston, Singapore Charles E. Tuttle Company 1998 Stated First Edition Softcover Near Fine 280 pp. including Notes and Bibliography. A wee bit of shelfwear and very very light rubbing to corners, previous owner's name and address to half-title page. Overall, tight and bright copy of this quite scarce first book in English on a woman haiku poet. First book in English on a woman Haiku poet. "Chiyo-ni (1703-1775) also known as Kaga no Chiyo, is perhaps Japan's most celebrated female haiku poet. A student of two 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. "...more than one hundred translations of her finest seasonal haiku, renku (linked verse), and haibun (travel poems). Most of the poems appear here for the first time in English..."