Welcome to Short. Lyrical. Sometimes Funny. This is the weblog for C A Crowley, Associate Professor of Japanese Literature at Emory University in Atlanta.
The title is a pretty good description of the literary genre I study most: pre-modern haikai, ancestor of the modern poetic form haiku.
Not all the blog is about haikai, but most of it focuses on Japanese studies and matters related to teaching it at an American university. A lot of it is notes on the things I've been reading; take care, sometimes there's a certain amount of imprecision.
The image at right is from a New Year's Day (saitan 歳旦) commemorative hokku collection, dated 1875 (collection of Kira Sueo and published in his book Karaa ban Bashô, Buson, Issa no sekai, 2007). It was Year of the Boar then, and in the spirit of this blog being a bit of a bore as well, here it is.
