Translator: Levy, Howard S.
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Japan’s best loved poetry classic, Hyakunin 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
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100 selections from lesser known Japanese poetry classics
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One hundred senryu
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100 Shinkokinshu selections
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100 haiku selections
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One hundred poems each from four Heian poets : Noin (988-1058?), the horsetrader-drifter; Fujiwara no Teika (1162-1241), the esthete-bureaucrat; Later Emperor Toba (1180-1239), the rebel in exile; Jien (1155-1225), the poet-priest