Book Details
Format
Paperback
Pages
266
Language
English
Published
Apr 15, 1997
Publisher
Columbia University Press
ISBN-10
0231110650
ISBN-13
9780231110655
Description
Ema Saiko (1787-1861) was a remarkably evocative poet, one of the few known woman writers of kanshi poems--verse written in classical Chinese but read as Japanese. Writing in this form, Saiko distinguished herself during the Tokugawa period, when composition in Chinese was largely a men's province.