Akikaze no uta

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Akikaze no uta

poem by Tōson

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Japanese literature
Western influences on poetry
Tōson’s “Akikaze no uta” (1896; “Song of the Autumn Wind”), however, is not merely a skillful echo of Percy Bysshe Shelley but a true picture of a Japanese landscape; the irregular lines of his poem tend to fall into the traditional pattern of five and seven…
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Tōson’s “Akikaze no uta” (1896; “Song of the Autumn Wind”), however, is not merely a skillful echo of Percy Bysshe Shelley but a true picture of a Japanese landscape; the irregular lines of his poem tend to fall into the traditional pattern of five and seven…
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