Wind in My Hand (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Hanako Fukuda
- First Published: 1970
- Time of Work: 1763–1813
- Setting: Kashiwabara, Shinano province, and Edo (Tokyo), Japan
- Principal Characters: Kobayashi Yatarō, His father, His grandmother, His stepmother, Rokuazemon Nakano
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Maturation or coming of age, Family or family life, Philosophy or philosophers, Poetry or poets, Asia or Asians, Creative process, Japan or Japanese people, Biography, Tokyo, Calligraphy, Haiku
- Locales: Japan
Form and Content
In Wind in My Hand, Hanako Fukuda (with editorial assistance from Mark Taylor) has written a biographical sketch of Kobayashi Yatarō, a haiku poet known as Issa, the poetic signature he designed to suggest the evanescence of a bubble in a cup of tea. Basing his narrative on the fragmentary autobiographical notes that Issa wrote as a kind of diary or journal, Fukuda arranges his account of Issa’s life as the recollections of an old man returning to his native village toward the latter part of his life. The narrative begins as Issa rests in reflection...
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