Akiko, Yosano - Further Reading
FURTHER READING
Criticism
Beichman, Janine. "Yosano Akiko: The Early Years." Japan Quarterly XXXVII, No. 1 (January-March 1990): 37-54.
Reevaluates Akiko's early work and explores her development as a poet.
__. "Akiko Goes to Paris: The European Poems." Journal of the Association of Teachers of Japanese 25, No. I (April 991): 123-45.
Translation of a selection of poems inspired by Akiko's travels in Europe. Beichman briefly examines how Akiko's poetry relates to the essays she wrote during the same period.
Cranston, Edwin A. "Young Akiko: The Literary Debut of Yosano Akiko (1878-1942)." Literature: East and West 18, No. 1 (March 1974): 19-43.
Describes Akiko's education and stylistic development leading up to, and including, the Tangled Hair poems.
Honda, H. H. "The Poetess of Love (1878-1942)," in The Poetry of Yosano Akiko, translated by H. H. Honda, v-ix. Tokyo: Hokuseido...
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