Taro Naka (1922-2014) is one of the most respected poets in post-war Japan, having won several major Japanese poetry prizes. His poetry reflects his life-long exploration of Buddhism, traditional and modern literature, language, art, and philosophy. He developed a poetics that paid attention to what he describes as the visual, phonetic, and historical aspects of words and how each word is a unique combination of these. The poems in this volume are selected from across his poetic output of some seventy years, ranging from his stark, uncompromising depictions of the war and its immediate aftermath to the formal experimentation of the 1965 collection often considered his magnum opus, Music - from which this book takes its title - and The First Emperor, his 2003 n¿ play. Music, consisting of strong translations by Andrew Houwen and Chikako Nihei, and including an illuminating introduction, is the first book-length collection of Naka's work in English.
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Taro Naka(1922-2014) was born Sh¿jir¿ Fukuda in Hakata, on the island of Ky¿sh¿ in western Japan. He entered Tokyo Imperial University in 1941 to study Japanese Literature but was called up to serve in the Japanese navy in October 1943. His first collection, Etudes, was published in 1950; his first mature collection, Music (1965), received the Yomiuri and Mur¿ Saisei prizes. He published four further poetry collections: Hakata (1975), No-Self Mountain Temple Diary and Other Poems (1985), Excerpts from Travellers of the Dark (1992), and Requiems (1995). In 2003, his n¿ play The First Emperor was published; it was performed at the National Noh Theatre in March 2014. He also published numerous critical works, including Hagiwara Sakutar¿ and Others (1975) and The Words of Poetry (1983), and prose essays such as The Music of Melancholy (1977) and The Garden of Time (1992).
