[syndicate] anyone specialist of Japanese poetry forms?

[Yukihiko Yoshida]

Hi Anna ---

GUTAI artists is known as japanese art movement in the middle of 
last century. They were influenced from Japanese Surrealism

Is "rangai" is "Renga" ?
Originally, Renga is the japanese poetry style in middle century.
If you have books on haiku, please look at them.
Some beatnik artists come to Japan and they are inspired by zen, japanese
poetry, and butoh. (BTW I saw the  performance by Kazuo Ohno in spite of
the age of 94 years old.) They will be the first step to learn japanese
poetry.

If have a chance to read the books by Octavio Paz, the mexican poet who
took novel prise, it is more better way to learn japanese poetry.
Ocativo Paz has interest in Japanese poetry and in his book, as far
as I remember, you can find his description and ideas on "renga".
Some japanese famous poets, Paz and Western poets collaborated together
about 10 years ago.

BTW,I have the my project in the past:
http://www.sfc.keio.ac.jp/~yukihiko/haiku.shtml
Renga is a kind of "chain art".

Best Wishes from TOKYO

Yukihiko

Yukihiko YOSHIDA


> could you help?
> I can't remember the name of a symbiotic Japanese poetry form
> - used by Gutai artists as well - that consists of collaborative sentences
> written originally on walls. I am not thinking about rangai 
> which is a collaborative form between two persons only.
> 
> links?
> 
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