Selected and translated by Jonathan Clements
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Featuring images drawn from the Art Institute's renowned Japanese collection, The Moon in the Pines combines paintings and woodblock prints from the Edo period (1603–1867) with 80 haiku masterpieces by leading Japanese poets from the 15th through the 20th century. In Japan poetry and painting have always been considered sister arts; the poems and images in this book were selected to complement one another and to suggest layered meanings that neither genre alone can express. Where the translator's words can only approximate the jewel-like subtleties of the haiku idiom, the companion images help evoke the quality of suspended time, or "unchanging amid the flow," that lies at the heart of the haiku poet's quest.
Frances Lincoln, Ltd. (U.K.), and Penguin Putnam, 2000
6 11/16 x 8 1/4 in.; 96 pages; 46 color illustrations
Hardcover $22.95 ISBN 0-711-21587-1
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