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| | Amazon.com: Masaoka Shiki: Books: Masaoka Shiki,Burton Watson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) |
 | | This new selection of [Shiki's] poems, from the hand of a distinguished scholar and translator, is particularly welcome. |
 | | It was Shiki, the short-lived critic, essayist and poet, who launched a major reform of haiku in the Meiji Era and revitalized the miniature poem for the century ahead. |
 | | Burton Watson's excellent introduction explores the course of Shiki's life: his poverty-stricken childhood, his early love for literature, his education, and his work as a haiku editor for the newspaper Nippon, and as a correspondent during the Sino-Japanese war. |
| www.amazon.com /Masaoka-Shiki/dp/023111091X (999 words) |
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