The Modern Fable

by Junzaburo, Nishiwaki

• ISBN13: 9781933382661
• ISBN10: 193338266X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-11-30
• Publisher: Consortium Book Sales & Dist

Summary

One of the most important Japanese poets of the period between 1930 and 1960, Nishiwaki revolutionized the poetry of Japan, introducing surrealism into his work. This translation, by Hiroaki Sato, is Nishiwaki's masterpiece of 1953.

Table of Contents

Ambarvalia
Fine Weather	p. 31
Shepherd in Capri	p. 32
Rain	p. 33
Violet	p. 34
Hand	p. 35
The Eyes	p. 36
The Plate	p. 37
Chestnut Leaves	p. 38
Elegy	p. 39
Love Song	p. 41
Traveler	p. 50
Cup's Primitivism	p. 51
Hairdressing	p. 52
Ceylon	p. 53
A Man Who Reads Omeros	p. 54
No Traveller Returns	p. 55
The Modern Fable
The Modern Fable	p. 79
Katherine	p. 81
Ann Veronica	p. 84
The Winter Day	p. 85
Autumn	p. 87
The Autumn Photo	p. 88
Bitterness of the Plum	p. 90
Men in Nanga Paintings	p. 92
(for Matisse's sketch)	p. 94
Transience	p. 96
Winter Day	p. 98
Haws	p. 100
For a Memory of Man	p. 101
Porcelain	p. 102
Afternoon Visit	p. 103
Far Down the Koshu Road	p. 105
Mountain Liquor	p. 106
Atalanta's Calydon	p. 108
Sorrow	p. 112
Clay	p. 114
Nara	p. 117
January	p. 118
Loquat	p. 119
The Road	p. 120
May	p. 122
Winter Conversation	p. 124
From Summer to Autumn	p. 125
Poem	p. 128
Flowers and Caterpillars	p. 129
The Way to the Lighthouse	p. 130
Stripping of Iphigenia	p. 132
Not Home	p. 134
Prothalamion	p. 136
Decorations	p. 137
Travelogue	p. 138
Esthetique Foraigne	p. 142
The Third Myth
Boars	p. 145
The Third Myth	p. 146
Slumber of a Gem
Photograph	p. 159
Walnut Tree	p. 160
Bowls	p. 161
Woodcutter	p. 163
Eggplant	p. 164
Slope	p. 165
Broadax	p. 166
For Memories	p. 167
Plum	p. 169
Afternoon by a Cliff	p. 171
Meditation in a Bar	p. 174
Hometown of the Clouds	p. 175
Slumber of a Gem	p. 176
Book of Rites
Rome	p. 179
The Eye in the Twilight	p. 181
Narcissi	p. 183
Evening on the Slope	p. 184
Yuan	p. 185
Autumn	p. 186
Cummings	p. 188
Pastoral Melancholy (Elegy)	p. 189
Autumn in Olympus	p. 191
Pheasant	p. 193
In an Abandoned Garden	p. 194
Sad	p. 195
(Autumn Song)	p. 196
Afterword	p. 197
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