Senryu: Japanese Satirical Verses
[Tokyo]: The Hokuseido Press, (1949). First edition. Fully illustrated, fold-out tissue-guarded frontispiece. Decorated cloth over boards. Octavo. iv, 230 pages. Bound in fine green cloth over boards, decorated with drawings in white, illustrated endpapers. Minor extremity wear to binding, Hinges sound. Jacket has a few edge chips and closed tears. Minor water tide marks to underside of jacket. Very good in a good dust jacket.
Senryu are haiku-like expressions of moments of vision into human nature, and this is a masterful study and explanation this Japanese literary art form. Blyth also provides translations of hundreds of senryu on a variety of subjects.
Filled with charming and often humorous drawings. Four page publisher list of other titles is laid in.
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