Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix
4. Introduction 1
5. A PROVINCIAL CHILDHOOD 1878–1888
6. ONE Birth, Exile, Return 17
7. TWO Growing Up in Sakai 28
8. ADOLESCENCE 1889–1900
9. THREE Saying No to Reality 45
10. FOUR The Poet Begins 65
11. LOVE AND POETRY 1900–1901
12. FIVE Tekkan Enters 83
13. SIX The Uses of Poetry 108
14. SEVEN Autumn in the West 137
15. EIGHT The Warm Snows of Miyako 151
16. NINE Tokyo and Tangled Hair 170
17. INTERPRETING TANGLED HAIR
18. TEN The Variety of Tangled Hair 199
19. ELEVEN The Shape of Tangled Hair 227
20. TWELVE The Originality of Tangled Hair 250
21. EPILOGUE: BIOGRAPHY AND THE POET’S BIRTH 260
22. APPENDIX JAPANESE TEXTS OF CITED POEMS 267
23. NOTES 283
24. REFERENCES 313
25. INDEX 325
26. ABOUT THE AUTHOR 339