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A Girl with Tangled Hair: The 399 tanka in Midaregami ? Tangled Hair by Akiko Yosano
A Girl with Tangled Hair The 399 tanka in Midaregami Tangled Hair by Akiko Yosano Author:Jane Reichhold, Machiko Kobayashi For the first time all the tanka in Akiko Yosano's 1901 book, Midaregami - Tangled Hair, have been translated into English. Each of the tanka has the original kanji version, a romaji version and the English so readers in both languages can appreciate the depth of Yosano's poetry. One of the reasons these 399 tanka have not been translated before... more » is the difficulty of discovering the ambiguity in the poems. Machiko Kobayashi, a professional translator with a degree in English Literature has teamed up Jane Reichhold, a tanka poet and translator of six books from the Japanese. Introduction to the book is written by Aya Yuhki, editor of The Tanka Journal in Tokyo.« less