101 modern Japanese poems
This remarkable anthology features 101 modern Japanese poems by 55 poets, including Shuntaro Tanikawa, Minoru Yoshioka and Taeko Tomioka, carefully selected from the postwar period by the renowned poet and literary critic Makoto Ooka.
A hundred verses from old Japan : being a translation of the Hyaku-nin-isshu
Compiled in the thirteenth century, the “Ogura Hyakunin Isshu” is one of Japan’s most quoted and illustrated works, as influential to the development of Japanese literary traditions as “The Tale of Genji” and “The Tales of Ise.” This text is an anthology
A long rainy season : Haiku & Tanka
A thousand years ago women poets at the Japanese imperial court created a written aesthetic of unmatched elegance and technical skill. Today, Japanese women poets write with equal sophistication about romance, family life, and sexuality, and about divorce, loneliness, feminism, politics, and the West. In this landmark anthology of traditional …
A poet’s anthology : the range of Japanese poetry
Translated by Janine Beichman, with Japanese originals in both kanji-kana and romaji versions. An ideal tool for the study of the Japanese poetic tradition by an internationally esteemed former president of PEN Japan, the author of over 19 collections of poetry and over 180 other works.
America & other poems
Winner of the 2004 U.S.-Japan Friendship Commission Award for the Translation of Japanese Literature from the Donald Keene Center of Japanese Culture at Columbia University. Poems.
Awesome nightfall : the life, times, and poetry of Saigyo
This book captures the power of Saigyo’s poetry and this previously overlooked poet’s keen insight into the social and political world of medieval Japan.
Basho’s Narrow road : spring & autumn passages : two works
Matsuo Basho (1644-94) is considered Japan’s greatest haiku poet. Narrow Road to the Interior (Oku no Hosomichi) is his masterpiece. Ostensibly a chronological account of the poet’s five-month journey in 1689 into the deep country north and west of the old capital, Edo, the work is in fact artful and …
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