Welcome to the 2022 Autumn Moon Festival. Within find works by 80 contributors to the issue from around the world plus a sample from four Japanese masters: Boncho, Imozeni, Shiki and Yayū.
But wait. There’s more. Lots more.
Click on the blue chrysanthemum flag in the right- hand column and a page will open to Japanese Haiku, Volume I of the Peter Pauper Press editions of Peter Beilenson's English workings of haiku by classical Japanese poets.
Click on the red chrysanthemum flag in the right-hand column and a page will open to the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu, a classic Japanese anthology consisting of 100 waka (better known today as tanka) by 100 poets.
Works linked under the above flags are in the public domain.
Click on the white chrysanthemum flag and a page will open to Monkey's Raincoat, a compilation of linked poems written by Basho and his followers in 1690. The work is published in PDF format by The Haiku Foundation Digital Library.
Click on the image of pilgrims climbing a hill in the right-hand column and a page will open to a gallery of 17 Japanese woodblock prints associated with autumn and the moon. The images are from a collection maintained by the Library of Congress and are in the public domain.
The temple entrance beneath the series of flags will open to a gallery of Japanese postcards of temples and autumn scenes. 17, go figure.
The right-hand column also contains an extensive list of books covering the centuries of haiku from its origins to the present day under the title A Haiku Library.
The book Chiyo-ni: Woman Haiku Master by Patricia Donegan and Yoshie Ishibashi belongs on this list, but it is rare and out-of-print. Used copies recently range in price from $150 to $500. A Thousand Years: The Haiku and Love Letters of Chiyo-ni by Marco Fraticelli belongs on the list, too, but it is also rare. A separate link opens to interpretations of Chiyo-ni's work by these and other authors.
Notable books of classic Japanese fiction and poetry collections are listed under the title A Bookshelf of Japanese Tales and Verse.
Book titles are linked to Amazon purchase listings. Plum Tree derives no compensation for items bought through these links, and the volumes may be available elsewhere than at Amazon.
Links to The Haiku Foundation and the Haiku and Tanka Societies of America follow the reading lists.
Content in the right-hand column concludes with gates to other Plum Tree issues, including one to Plum Tree's Haiku 2016 to 2020 Edition.
The greatest of thanks to the contributors who made this issue possible. Take a stroll from the water's edge through the mist to the hills. Enjoy recklessly.
Shortcut to an individual's work
Autumn Moon is built around several sections or chapters. An individual's work may be posted in one or more sections. The editor naturally hopes that everyone reads the complete edition. But to quickly locate in which section(s) your work is placed, or the work of a favorite artist or writer, click on the selected name in the Contributors category in the right-hand column of the issue. The sections in which the individual's work appears will generate in the left-hand side of the page.
Masthead
“A fairy moon and a lonely shore,” Matsumoto print, no. 39. The Matsumoto Do, Ltd. Tokyo, Japan. From the collection The Moon in Japanese Art, Library of Congress. Image in the public domain.
End Plate
“Seba Station,“ Utagawa Hiroshige. From the collection The Moon in Japanese Art, Library of Congress. Image in the public domain.
The following haiku included in this collection are adapted from the original Japanese by Peter Beilenson and are in the public domain:
• in silent mid-night (Boncho)
• shocking...the red of (Chiyo-ni)
• not a voice or stir (Imozeni)
• while I turned my head (Shiki)
Don't tell the scarecrow by Yayū is taken from the collection Don't Tell the Scarecrow and Other Japanese Poems, Scholastic Book Services, and is published under the fair use doctrine.
1 comment:
Fantastically surreal!
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