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  Japanese Death Poems (Paperback)(English / Japanese) Edited by Yoel Hoffman

  

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  Short Description for Japanese Death PoemsHundreds of 'jisei' or death poems translated into English
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  • Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
  • Published: 04 June 1998
  • Format: Paperback 366 pages
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  • Categories: Poetry | Poetry By Individual Poets | Poetry Anthologies (various Poets) | Sociology: Death & Dying
  • ISBN 13: 9780804831796 ISBN 10: 0804831793
  • Sales rank: 67,764

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Full description for Japanese Death Poems

• Although the consciousness of death is in most cultures very much a part of life, this is perhaps nowhere more true than in Japan, where the approach of death has given rise to a centuries-old tradition of writing jisei, or the "death poem." Such a poem is often written in the very last moments of the poet's life.