S7E45 Japanese Female Tanka Poets Part 1: Yosano Akiko

Poetry Pea - haiku and other English Language Japanese short forms

Time for a bit more tanka poetry, because if you are listening to this in real time, the beginning of November 2024, submissions are open for tanka, your deadline the 15th November.

This episode is about the poet Yosano Akiko, an extraordinary woman, mother, poet, essayist, traveller, co-founder of a school for girls. A feminist of her time and a woman who wrote great tanka.

Hear her work, learn something of her life, find out what people thought of her in her lifetime.

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