Ueda provides a rich and comprehensive introduction, with more clear and accurate background on Japanese haiku and its development over the past four centuries than can be found in so few words elsewhere in English.
The only real gap in Uedas sequence of poets, in the later years of the Tokugawa or Edo Era after Kikusha (Issas contemporary), reflects the failing haiku of that time as well as the increasing repression of women in a declining culture.
Uedas introduction and the inclusion of several early women haiku poets brief biographies and samplings of poems constitute a kind of catch-up history, of which much more needs to be done.
Far beyond the Field: Haiku by Japanese Women: An Anthology - Makoto Ueda(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
MakotoUeda is professor emeritus of Japanese at Stanford University.
Far Beyond the Field is a first-of-its-kind anthology of haiku by Japanese women, collecting translations of four hundred haiku written by twenty poets from the seventeenth century to the present.
By arranging the poems chronologically, MakotoUeda has created an overview of the way in which this enigmatic seventeen-syllable form has been used and experimented with during different eras.
Ueda is a generous translator, explaining double meanings, allusions to Japanese and Chinese literature, and common sayings and maxims of the time of the poem.
Ueda tells us this was composed on the 7th anniversary of the death of Chigetsu's husband, and that this is a significant anniversary in buddhist tradition.
As Ueda follows the development of haiku in Japan from the earliest days when men were poets and women the serving girls at their poetry gatherings, we find haiku groups, anthologies, and magazines only for women.
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Owing to masterful editing and translating by MakotoUeda, the beauty of the original poetry shines forth throughout this volume.
Ueda's introduction is a comprehensive look at the development of the tanka form, and an orientation of its poets within the broader literary movements of Japanese tanka, and other contemporary poetry.
Each poet is introduced with a reletively lengthy biography which provides personal information helpful to the contemplation of their poetry, especially considering that tanka are mostly occasional poems written as an expression of daily living.
Modern Japanese Tanka includes four hundred poems by twenty of Japan's most renowned poets who have made major contributions to the hisotry of tanka in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
With his graceful, eloquent translations, MakotoUeda captures the distinct voices of these individual poets, providing biographical sketches of each as well as transliterating Japanese text below each poem.
MAKOTOUEDA is Professor of Japanese at Stanford University.
Basho Interpretations & Commentaries(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
I am currently reading a book by MakotoUeda entitled Basho and his Interpreters.
The book contains 255 selected hokku by Basho with an interpretive translation by MakotoUeda, followed by the romanized original and word-for-word translation.
Notes with some of the poems give background such as date and place of composition, and explanations of some Japanese words where it was felt they were needed.
www.haikupoetshut.com /bashocom.html (476 words)
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Ueda aids us by selecting some of Basho's best efforts and then relating them to the body of criticism available.
This approach is especially effective, for it facilitates use of the text for the two stated purposes of translation and criticism availability.
Ueda helpfully adds biographical sketches between sections to put the poems into context and provides the original Japanese and word for word translations, and although I have found better translations of individual poems, his are adequate at least and often elegant.
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They were restless to travel, and as MakotoUeda states in his book, Matsuo Basho,; that upon returning from a long period of travel, 147;Basho began preparing for the next journey almost immediately.
Issas mother died when he was young, his stepmother abused him, and all this children died before their second birthday, yet he writes with an intense Buddhist compassion for all life human, insect and animal.
According to MakotoUedas source, 147;Basho and His Interpreters, Basho wrote this haiku in the spring of 1688 while traveling in the province of Yamato.
Matsuo Basho, by MakotoUeda (Kodansha International, 1982)
Basho and his Interpreters, Selected Hokku with Commentary, compiled, translated and with an introduction by MakotoUeda (Stanford University Press, 1992)
Modern Japanese Tanka, An Anthology, edited and translated by MakotoUeda (Columbia University Press, 1996)
On Thursday, January 27 at the Sundance Film Festival, Ken Brecher, Executive Director of the Sundance Institute, and MakotoUeda of NHK (Japanese Broadcasting Corporation) announced the recipients of the 2005 Sundance/NHK International Filmmakers Awards: Catalin Mitulescu of Romania, Rodrigo Moreno of Argentina, Richard Press of the United States, and Mipo Oh of Japan.
The award is presented annually to filmmakers who “show a tremendous gift for storytelling,” said Brecher.
And Ueda spoke of the importance of encouraging filmmaking outside of Hollywood.
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Professor Ueda explores the mystery of suicide among Japan's reigning modern literary masters and asks how these writers have, in turn, both reflected and helped to shape the modern consciousness and self-image of the Japanese people.
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