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.
Anyone who has ever heard the extraordinary Yoshimasu Gozo’s mesmerizing readings will never forget him. Yoshimasu breaks away from linear pseudorealism to offer a range of alternative voices and models which challenge our postmodernist passivity.
This anthology encompasses all the major Japanese women poets, over one hundred, arranged chronologically and all the major verse forms: choka, tanka, haikai (haiku), kanshi (verse written in Chinese), and free verse.