Cheryl A. Crowley, Ph.D. (2001) in Japanese Literature, Columbia University, is Assistant Professor of Japanese Literature at Emory University. She has published on Japanese literature in Monumenta Nipponica, Early Modern Japan Journal, US-Japan Women's Journal, and Japan Studies Review. More.

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This book uses the haikai verse and paintings of the brilliant, innovative artist Yosa Buson (1716-1783) as a focal point from which to explore how Japanese writers competed for artistic authority in a time when popular responses to economic, technological, and social changes were creating the beginnings of a modern literature.

Image: Itsuo Art Museum

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