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Sanki Saito
AUTHOR BACKSTORY: "As a testament to his maverick reputation, he was imprisoned in 1940 during the government's World War II persecution of avant-garde artists, and was officially forbidden to write…
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Sanki Saito was a leading figure in the prewar New Rising Haiku movement. He was silenced during the war, but later published three major collections; over a thousand haiku from…
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Sanki Saitō
Masaya Saito's translation of Sanki Saito's memoirs of his bohemian life in a run-down, cosmopolitan hotel in the port city of Kobe during World War II and its aftermath.