This Anthology brings togethere in convenient form a rich selection of Japanese poetry in Traditional genres dating back from the earliest times to the twentieth century.
The Japanese language, with its.
Ezra Pound called poetry "the most concentrated form of verbal expression," and the great poets of Japan wrote poems as charged and compressed as poems can be.
With more than 1,100 poems, it is the most varied and comprehensive selection of Traditional Japanese poetry now available in English.
This Anthology brings togethere in convenient form a rich selection of Japanese poetry in Traditional genres dating back from the earliest times to the twentieth century