POETRY / Asian / Japanese

Current paper · Semantic Scholar

This study examines how individualized employment practices—specifically idiosyncratic deals (i-deals)—generate moral tension when introduced into collectivist organizational contexts. Drawing on comparative qualitative data from five Japanese and Vietnamese organizations, we explore how the individualized logic of i-deals intersects with collectivist values of harmony, equality, and relational obligation. Our findi…

Reference · Wikidata

10th century Japanese waka anthology

Encyclopedia · Wikipedia

The Kokin Wakashū , commonly abbreviated as Kokinshū (古今集), is an early anthology of the waka form of Japanese poetry, dating from the Heian period. An imperial anthology, it was conceived by Emperor Uda and published by order of his son Emperor Daigo in about 905. Its finished form dates to c. 920, though according to several historical accounts the last poem was added to the collection in 914.

Book · DOAB

Okinawan life, at the crossroads of American militarism and Japanese capitalism, embodies a fundamental contradiction to the myth of the monoethnic state. Suspended in a state of exception, Okinawans have never been officially classified as colonial subjects of the Japanese empire or the United States, nor have they ever been treated as equal citizens of Japan. As a result, they live amid one of the densest concentr…

Full text · Open Library

Image · DPLA

The third tape in a nine tape series of a class by Pat Donegan on the Imagists and East Asian poets. In this class Donegan focuses on Chinese poetry. She quotes Ezra Pound on Japanese and Chinese poetry. Donegan and students read and discuss the work of Wang Wei, Tu Fu, Li Po, and others.