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Similar In Form To The Well-known, More Serious Haiku, The Satirical -- And Often Humorous -- Poems Known As Senryu Have Received Little Scholarly Attention Because Most Were Written By Anonymous Amateur Poets And Were Therefore Considered Popular Literature Unworthy Of Serious Study. Senryu Are Interesting, However, Precisely Because They Reflect The Thoughts And Feelings Of Ordinary Townspeople In A Way That Other More Orthodox Types Of Japanese Literature Do Not. In His Introduction On The Nature And Historical Background Of The Form, Makoto Ueda Explores The Elements Of Humor And Satire Contained In Senryu, Highlighting The Mores That Lie Behind The Laughter The Poems Evince. Collecting 400 Eighteenth- And Nineteenth-century Poems -- With The Romanized Japanese Verse Presented At The Bottom Of Each Page -- Light Verse From The Floating World Is Divided Into Thematic Sections, Each Preceded By A Short Introduction: ? Satirical Senryu, Aimed At People Of The Ruling Warrior Class And Civilians Of Various Professions; ? Senryu On Human Relationships -- Between Young Lovers, Husband And Wife, Parent And Child, Or Family Members Of Different Generations; ? Poems On Townspeople Enjoyi

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Author

compiled, translated, and with an introduction by Makoto Ueda

Publisher

Columbia University Press

Published

1999

Language

EN

ISBN

9780231115513

Category

work of literary fiction

Subjects

Literary Criticism, Literary Fiction, Short Stories

Rating

4.3 / 5 (18 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14