'A Sky Full of Bucket Lists' Review: Japanese Flavours, Local Cuisine
'A Sky Full of Bucket Lists' Review: Japanese Flavours, Local Cuisine Shobhana Kumarâs book is a timely intervention to a growing subset of Indian poetry. Representative image. Photo: Yellow Mao/Flickr CC BY NC ND 2.0 Rabindranath Tagore recollected his first visit to Japan in 1916 in his book Japan Jatri, where he first introduced the haiku into Bengali. Translating the 17th-century Japanese poet Matsuo Basho, Tagore wrote: âThe heart of the Japanese people does not sound like a waterfall; it is quiet like a lake.â Since then, the haiku â and other Japanese forms such as...
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