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  • An Introduction to Durian Sukegawa's A Dosimeter on the Narrow Road to Oku

  • Durian Sukegawa, Alison Watts
  • Journal:
    Asia-Pacific Journal / Volume 21 / Issue 5 / May 2023
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    14 March 2025, e1
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  • In this introduction to an excerpt from Durian Sukegawa's travel memoir A Dosimeter on the Narrow Road to Oku, I give an outline of Sukegawa's biography, his reasons for undertaking a journey by bicycle in 2012 along Matsuo Basho's route in The Narrow Road to Oku, and the reasons for my own particular interest in this text. The translation covers the section of his journey from Fukagawa to Nasu. It won the 2021 Kyoko Selden Memorial Translation Prize in Japanese Literature, Thought, and Society.

  • 55 - Development of the late yomihon: Santō Kyōden and Kyokutei Bakin

  • from Part IV - The Edo period (1600–1867)
  • Edited by Haruo Shirane, Columbia University, New York, Tomi Suzuki, Columbia University, New York, David Lurie, Columbia University, New York
  • Book:
    The Cambridge History of Japanese Literature
    Published online:
    05 January 2016
    Print publication:
    17 December 2015, pp 539-550

  • Summary

    Haikai as a popular genre fully came into its own in the Edo period, moving from a state of anonymity to a multifaceted genre that had a broad impact on many other cultural forms. Matsuo Basho, who participated in both the Teimon and the Danrin schools, became the most influential haikai poet of the late seventeenth century. Haikai was to evolve significantly after the passing of Basho and his school. One major successor was Yosa Buson, who moved to Edo and became a disciple of Hayano Hajin, a haikai poet who had established the Yahantei circle in Nihonbashi. In the early nineteenth century, after Buson and his successors had died, haikai continued to be popular. The most talented haikai poet of this age was Kobayashi Issa, whose main interest was in the contemporary and quotidian, and who focused on the hokku rather than on linked verse. Issa is considered a highly unorthodox haikai poet.