The poems in A Samurai’s Pink House are threaded with the transformation of the seasons from Matsuo Basho’s travels to a love affair between a kabuki cross-dresser and a lonely geisha and the struggles of women in ancient and modern-day Japan. The collection takes the reader on a journey through the fascinating culture of Japan with graceful and accessible language. A sensuous, powerful and beautiful collection that moves across rice fields, tea houses, cherry orchards and narrow alleys where characters, in different stages of life, strive to find identity, peace and love.
Authors
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Date published
- 2019.
- Description conventions
- rda
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- C811/.6
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 23
- Distributor
- Canadian Electronic Library (Firm),
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- ISBN
- 1771333812 9781771333849
- LCCN
- PR9199.4.S252
- LCCN Item number
- A6 2017eb
- Modifying agency
- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- NLC
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (xii, 107 pages)
- Published in
- Ottawa, Ontario
- Publisher or Distributor Number
- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)kck00239953 (OCoLC)1110657858 (CaOOCEL)457537
- System Details Note
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Transcribing agency
- NLC
Table of Contents
- Cover 1
- Praise 2
- Title Page 6
- Copyright 7
- Dedication 8
- Also By 9
- Contents 10
- The Obedient 14
- When Men Aren’t Enough 15
- Shielded Memories 16
- The Last Female Samurai 17
- Obon Conception 18
- Photograph of Self 19
- In the Hot Spring of Healing 20
- Unhonourable Fantasy 21
- Kyoto’s Koyo 22
- A Samurai’s Pink House 23
- Modern Matsushima 24
- Bashō’s Haiku Goes to the Frogs 25
- White Pink Yellow 26
- Grief 27
- The Red Bridge 28
- The Kitchen Worker 29
- Was Bashō a Vegetarian? 30
- a passing dog 31
- An Advanced Thinker 32
- A Holy Scroll 33
- The Miko 34
- Turn of Summer 36
- A Buddhist Monk in an Izakaya 37
- The Maiko’s Obi 39
- Pink Moonlight 40
- The Kabuki Actor 41
- The Kabuki Cross-dresser 42
- Spring 43
- Tokyo Kabuki 45
- Geisha Meet Onnagata 46
- a couple in kimono 48
- Leaving the Geisha House 49
- beyond 51
- On Sharing the Details of Her Mizuage 52
- Candescent 53
- The Single Geisha 54
- Autumn’s Emptiness 55
- cats make loud love 56
- old futon bed 57
- Cupid’s Aim 58
- A Geisha’s Shamisen 59
- folded origami 60
- The Red Light District 61
- Kimono Days 62
- Sendai 63
- Best Fortune 64
- Something More 65
- The Scarecrow 66
- Sunrise on a Train 67
- Late Night Train 68
- The Music Teacher 69
- Love 70
- Snow Angels 71
- Blue Rooftops 72
- alone on new year’s 74
- a solitary life 75
- sittingaloneonthecrammedtrain 76
- The Language of Frogs 77
- The Long Commute 79
- foreign food 81
- The Art of Patience 82
- The Return to Ancestral Graves 84
- Another Farewell 86
- scattered leaves 88
- In the Milky Way 89
- Zen Concentration 90
- The Great Buddha 91
- morning walk 93
- saffron crocus 94
- Ancient World 95
- country road 96
- Conquering Fuji-san 97
- Midnight Baths 99
- homemade baklava 100
- Gifts from Grandchildren 101
- Basic Commodities 102
- afternoon tea 103
- The Letter 104
- Winter on the First Day of Spring 105
- first day of winter 107
- Spring in Northern Japan 108
- a pink petal 109
- indigo sky 110
- Hokkaido Hot Springs 111
- A Fisherman’s Love 112
- A Lost Soldier 113
- Typhoon Season 114
- An Elephant Ride 115
- Hanami in Spring 117
- Author’s Note 118
- Acknowledgements 119
