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- Title: Chains of Elusiveness: Buson and Kito's "Momosumomo" Haikai Sequences (Yosa Buson, Takai Kito) (Critical Essay)
- Author : Southeast Review of Asian Studies
- Release Date : January 01, 2008
- Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 231 KB
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"Momosumomo" [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] (Peaches and plums) is a collection of haikai PM linked-verse sequences composed in 1780 by Yosa Buson [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] (1716-83) and his main disciple, Takai Kito [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] (1741-89). Unlike most Japanese linked verse--normally written in a single session--the two sequences of "Momosumomo" were composed by letters exchanged over a period of several months. What resulted are sequences that demonstrate not only the unpredictability and surprise that is customary in haikai but also a level of restraint and subtlety that is unmatched in other haikai of this period. This article explores the verses of "Momosumomo" as examples of ways that eighteenth-century haikai poets exploited the ambiguity and indeterminacy of the linked form to create sequences where voice, point of view, and identity shift with each successive link, resulting in collaborative works that create numerous loosely connected but discrete narratives. The Linked-Verse Community of Eighteenth-Century Japan