Three Demons

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ISBN 10: 1960385275 / ISBN 13: 9781960385277

Editore: Open Letter Books Dez 2024, 2024

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Neuware - Sanki Saito (1900 1962), born Keichoku Saito in Tsuyama, Japan, was a pioneering short story writer and poet whose bold, modern haiku challenged the conventions of his time. As a key figure in the New Rising Haiku movement of the 1930s, Sanki redefined the boundaries of haiku by breaking with the strict traditionalists who insisted on "season words" and the direct observation of nature. In their place, Sanki and his peers opened haiku to imagined experience, infusing it with radical new perspectives that would forever transform the form.Writing under the pen name Sanki, meaning "Three Demons," his reputation as a literary maverick grew rapidly. His radical, inventive approach to haiku, however, also made him a target of Japan s militaristic government. In 1940, Sanki was imprisoned as part of the wartime crackdown on dissident artists and writers, and he was officially silenced banned from writing or publishing his work.Three Demonsbrings together Sanki's most evocative haiku, meticulously curated and beautifully translated by Ryan Choi. Drawing from five of Sanki s collections Flags(1940),Night Peaches(1948),One Hundred Haiku(1948),Today(1952), andTransformations(1962) this anthology introduces readers to the revolutionary spirit and emotional depth of a poet who helped redefine one of Japan s most treasured literary traditions.

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• Titolo: Three Demons
• Editore: Open Letter Books Dez 2024
• Data di pubblicazione: 2024
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1960385275
• ISBN 13: 9781960385277
• Rilegatura: Taschenbuch
• Condizione: Neu
• Dimensioni: 199 L x 122 A x 7 P (millimetri) 199 millimetri di larghezza per 122 millimetri di altezza per 7 millimetri di profondità
• Peso: 118 grammi

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Sanki Saito (1900–1962), born Keichoku Saito in Tsuyama, Japan, was a pioneering short story writer and poet whose bold, modern haiku challenged the conventions of his time. As a key figure in the New Rising Haiku movement of the 1930s, Sanki redefined the boundaries of haiku by breaking with the strict traditionalists who insisted on “season words” and the direct observation of nature. In their place, Sanki and his peers opened haiku to imagined experience, infusing it with radical new perspectives that would forever transform the form.

Writing under the pen name Sanki, meaning “Three Demons,” his reputation as a literary maverick grew rapidly. His radical, inventive approach to haiku, however, also made him a target of Japan’s militaristic government. In 1940, Sanki was imprisoned as part of the wartime crackdown on dissident artists and writers, and he was officially silenced—banned from writing or publishing his work.

Three Demons brings together Sanki's most evocative haiku, meticulously curated and beautifully translated by Ryan Choi. Drawing from five of Sanki’s collections—Flags (1940), Night Peaches (1948), One Hundred Haiku (1948), Today (1952), and Transformations (1962)—this anthology introduces readers to the revolutionary spirit and emotional depth of a poet who helped redefine one of Japan’s most treasured literary traditions.

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Sanki Saito (1900-1962) was a Japanese poet and short story writer, most famous for his modern haiku, which he began writing in his thirties while practicing dentistry, and for which he was briefly imprisoned during the Second World War. He published four collections in his lifetime—Flags (1940), Night Peaches (1948), Today (1952), and Transformations (1962). “Sanki” is a nom de plume that means “Three Demons.”

 

Ryan C. K. Choi is an award-winning composer and musician, writer, and literary translator, whose work has appeared in BOMB, Harper’s, Tin House, The White Review, The Yale Review and elsewhere. His translations have included the works of Jun Tsuji, Shinkichi Takahashi, Sanki Saito, and Ryunosuke Akutagawa.