E. Kerkham 
Matsuo Bash?’s Poetic Spaces 
Exploring Haikai Intersections

Haikai is an art that parodies and often subverts its linguistic, generic, and personal predecessors, and its intersections include imaginative links to the rest of Japanese literature and culture. This collection of essays explores certain neglected aspects of this haikaimaster’s literary and philosophical contributions.

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Introduction; E.Kerkham PART I: The Artist As Thinker Bashô: At the Center of Creation; H.Nobuo Zôka: The Creative in Bashô’s View of Nature and Art; D.L.Barnhill Reinventing the Landscape: The Zhuangzi and the Geographical Imagination of Bashô; P.Qiu Skeletons on the Path: Bashô Looks Forward; W.La Fleur PART II: The Artist As Poet Double Voices and Bashô’s Haikai; H.Shirane Loosening the Links: Considering Intention in Linked Verseand its Consequences; I. Leopold Hanami Exploring Bashô’s World of Poetic Expression: Soundscape Verses; H.Minoru And Us Too Enclosed in Mori Atsushi’s Ware mo mata, Oku no hosomichi ; Eleanor Kerkham PART III: The Poet As Painter Bashô and the Haiga; J.O’Mara Intersections of Text and Image in Haiga; S.Addiss Buson’s Bashô: The Embrace of Influence; E.F.Yasuhara Appendix

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ELEANOR KERKHAM is Associate Professor of Japanese Language and Literature at the University of Maryland, USA.