Midaregami
E944861
Midaregami is a pioneering early 20th-century Japanese tanka poetry collection renowned for its passionate, sensual, and feminist themes.
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| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
poetry collection
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tanka collection ⓘ |
| alternateEnglishTitle | Disheveled Hair NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Myōjō magazine
NERFINISHED
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Yosano Tekkan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| author | Yosano Akiko NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| containsPoeticPersona | passionate young woman GENERATED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Japan ⓘ |
| criticalReception |
controversial at time of publication
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later highly acclaimed ⓘ |
| form | tanka ⓘ |
| genre |
Japanese poetry
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tanka ⓘ |
| influenced |
Taishō and Shōwa era poets
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modern Japanese women’s poetry ⓘ |
| literaryMovement |
feminist literature
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modern Japanese literature ⓘ |
| literarySignificance |
key work in the history of Japanese feminist writing
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landmark of early modern Japanese lyric poetry ⓘ |
| notableFor |
challenge to Meiji-era social norms
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innovative use of classical tanka form ⓘ passionate expression of female sexuality ⓘ pioneering feminist perspective in Japanese poetry ⓘ |
| numberOfPoems | 399 ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | Japanese ⓘ |
| periodDepicted | Meiji period NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| periodStyle | early modern Japanese poetry ⓘ |
| publicationCentury | 20th century ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1901 ⓘ |
| publisher | Hakubunkan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting | late Meiji Japan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| style |
emotionally direct
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imagistic ⓘ intensely lyrical ⓘ |
| theme |
bodily autonomy
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emotional intensity ⓘ eroticism ⓘ female desire ⓘ feminism ⓘ individualism ⓘ love ⓘ marriage ⓘ motherhood ⓘ romantic love ⓘ sensuality ⓘ |
| titleMeaning | Tangled Hair NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| uses |
classical allusions
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innovative diction ⓘ |
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