| Article number: | 1204-7 |
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09/09 NINE JAPANESE FEMALE POETS, poems by Sei Shōnagon, Fujiwara no Teishi, Murasaki Shikibu, Kōkamonin no Bettō, Izumi Shikibu, Koshikibu no Naishi, Ukon, Daini no Sanmi, and Empress Shōshi; translations, original essays, and drawings by Naoko Fujimoto. (21 pages, staple-bound. Toad Press, 2024.)
"09/09 excels at uncovering complex feelings embodied in the waka, a classical poetic form written in the Japanese syllabary alphabet hiragana. In the Japanese original, waka is a syllabic verse composed with lines of 5, 7, 5, 7, 7 syllables respectively, but Fujimoto has rendered her translations to “restore some of the freedom of form in which these original works were made.” - Tiffany Troy, for Asymptote