Santoka :: Grass and Tree Cairn - The Haiku Foundation
[Pages:10]Santoka :: Grass and Tree Cairn
translations :: Hiroaki Sato
illustrations :: Stephen Addiss
RED MOON PRESS
Santoka :: Grass and Tree Cairn Translations by Hiroaki Sato Illustrations by Steven Addiss Back Cover Illustration by Kuniharu Shimizu
?2002 by Red Moon Press
ISBN 1-893959-28-7
Red Moon Press PO Box 2461 Winchester VA 22604-1661 USA redmoon@
Santoka :: Grass and Tree Cairn
translations :: Hiroaki Sato illustrations :: Stephen Addiss
Taneda Santoka (1882-1940)
was born a son of a large landowner in Yamaguchi and named Shoichi; mother committed suicide when he was ten; dropped out of Waseda University, Tokyo, after a nervous breakdown; started a sake brewery at 25; married at 27; acquired the habit of drinking heavily at 28; first haiku appeared in Ogiwara Seisensui's non-traditional haiku magazine Soun (Cumulus) at age 31; moved to Kumamoto with family and started a secondhand bookstore when 34; legally divorced at 38; while in Tokyo, was arrested and jailed in the aftermath of the Great Kanto Earthquake, in 1923 (police used the quake as a pretext for rounding up and killing many Socialists); back in Kumamoto, taken to a Zen temple of the Soto sect as a result of drunken behavior at 42; ordained a Zen monk at 43; for the rest of his life was mostly on the road as a mendicant monk (in practical terms, a beggar), traveling throughout Japan; at 53, attempted suicide; his book of haiku Somokuto (Grass and Tree Cairn)--an assemblage of earlier chapbooks--was published several months before he died of a heart attack while asleep drunk; the book's dedication was "to my mother / who hastened to her death when young"; Santoka, the penname he began to use when he translated Turgenev, means "mountaintop fire".
To Master Cor
Acknowledgements
The section on Ogiwara Seisensui in the introduction originally appeared in Tundra, and some of the translations of Santoka's haiku in Cicada many, many years ago.
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