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REN: The mechanism of linking in Japanese culture - http://www.lian.com/TANAKA/englishpapers/renhis.htm
Text of a talk given by Yuko Tanaka, of Hosei University in Tokyo, in 1993 at the Nissan Institute, Oxford University. Discusses the concept of linking, with special emphasis on linked poetry of Basho. |
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Phinaes' Haikai Translation - http://www.geocities.com/dr_phinaes/haikaitranslation.html
English translations of several Japanese haikai no renga (aka "renku") by Sean Price. (Note: Includes original Japanese texts after each translation, which may appear as question marks or gibberish.) |
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Haikai Poetics - http://www.diva-portal.org/su/abstract.xsql?dbid=1322
Haikai Poetics is a doctoral dissertation by Herbert Jonsson, accepted by the University of Stokholm in 2006. It is focused mainly on the renku poetics of Yosa Buson and his followers, but includes limited material on hokku (haiku) as well. This page presents an abstract and is a portal to a pdf file of the full dissertation. |
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Renku Home - http://haikai.2hweb.net/renku/index.html
Examples of original renku in English. Also, articles on renku--Japanese-style linked poems. Includes an extensive bibliography and English/Japanese season word list. Maintained by William J. Higginson. |