Miyazawa wrote his Proem poem The Hard Keyura Jewels… (1922) as a supplement to his first collection, Spring and Asura (1924). While the first two lines or so of the manuscript seem to be missing, the poem clearly expresses the… Read More ›
Japanese modernist poetry
Analysis of Sakutarō Hagiwara’s The Octopus That Does Not Die
Composed as a prose poem and narrated from an omniscient point of view, this piece by Sakutarō gives an account of the sad life of an octopus neglected for a long time in “a certain aquarium” (281). The poet delicately… Read More ›