Net of Fireflies. Harold Stewart

      

      A NET OF FIREFLIES

      A NET OF FIREFLIES

      JAPANESE HAIKU AND HAIKU PAINTINGS

      with verse translations

       and an essay

       by

       HAROLD STEWART

      CHARLES E. TUTTLE COMPANY: PUBLISHERS

       Rutland, Vermont Tokyo, Japan

      Published by

       the Charles E. Tuttle Company, Inc.

       of Rutland, Vermont & Tokyo, Japan

       with editorial offices at

       Osaki Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo 141-0032.

      © 1960 by Charles E. Tuttle Publishing Co., Inc.

      All rights reserved

      LCC Card No. 60-15603

       ISBN 978-1-4629-0121-0

      First edition, 1960

       Twenty-fifth printing, 1986

       First giftbook edition, 1993

       Second printing, 1996

      PRINTED IN JAPAN

TABLE OF CONTENTS
	LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS :	page 7
	ACKNOWLEDGMENTS :	9
1	SPRING :	11
2	SUMMER :	37
3	AUTUMN :	63
4	WINTER :	89
	ON HAIKU AND HAIGA: AN ESSAY :	115
	SPIRIT AND SUBSTANCE :	117
	FORM AND TECHNIQUE :	128
	PRINCIPLES AND PROBLEMS OF TRANSLATION :	147
	NOTES :	167
	BIBLIOGRAPHY :	171
	INDEX OF AUTHORS AND TITLES :	173

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
1.	STARRY NIGHT by Tomoda Sōgyo :	frontispiece
2.	PLUM-BLOSSOMS THROUGH A HERMITAGE WINDOW by Nakamura Fusetsu :	page 15
3.	SHOOTS OF THE HORSETAIL PLANT by Saitō Shōshû :	16
4.	MOUNTAIN TEMPLE IN SPRING by Suzuki Koson :	21
5.	DEMON AND VIOLETS by Nishi Ôshû :	22
6.	WALKING ALONE IN SPRING by Okano Sakae :	27
7.	TADPOLES IN SPRING WATERS by Kosugi Misei :	28
8.	LISTENING TO THE SKYLARK by Shibahara Kaizô :	33
9.	FALLING PETALS AND PARASOL by Kikakudô Kiichi :	34
10.	HIGH CLOUDS AT NOON by Ogawa Senô :	41
11.	RIVER BREEZE by Ishikawa Kinichirô :	42
12.	BATH IN SUMMER by Ôta Saburô :	47
13.	SONG OF A SUMMER SHOWER by Yûki Somei :	48
14.	SUDDEN DOWNPOUR by Shibahara Kaizô :	53
15.	SHY RAINBOW by Hirafuku Hayakusui :	34
16.	CHORUS OF CICADAS AFTER RAIN by Okano Sakae :	59
17.	PUMPKIN HARVEST by Sasaki Rimpû :	60
18.	AUTUMN IN A MOUNTAIN VILLAGE by Ishikawa Kin ichirô :	67
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