Genre: Poetry
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Treelike : the poetry of Kinoshita Yuji
A perfectionist who wrote fewer than 400 poems, Kinoshita Yuji’s crisp, vivid imagery often expresses the tension between his rural life and his urge to be a sophisticated modern and urban poet. Winner of the Yomiuri Prize in 1966.
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Responses magnetic : selected poems
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Haiku : messages from Matsuyama
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The New Poetry of Japan, the ’70s and ’80s
Translated from the Japanese by Christopher Drake, Robert Brady, Odagawa Kazuko, Eric Selland, William I. Elliott and Kawamura Kazuo. This anthology contains the books of five poets—Fujii Sadakazu, Hirata Toshiko, Matsuura Hisaki, Yoshida Fuminori, Inagawa Masato—who emerged in the 1970s and 1980s as the voice of a new tradition, asserting an individual voice against the…
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Disappearance of the butterfly
Poems.
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Mountain tasting : Zen haiku and journals
Selections.
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The Zen poems of Ryokan
Poems.
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The dumpling field : haiku of Issa
Kobayashi Issa (1763-1827), long considered among Japan’s four greatest haiku poets (along with Basho, Buson, and Shiki) is probably the best loved. This collection of more than 360 haiku, arranged seasonally and many rendered into English for the first time, attempts to reveal the full range of the poet’s extraordinary life as if it were…
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Ryokan, Zen monk-poet of Japan
Consists chiefly of translations of selected Japanese and Chinese poems, the former with romanized Japanese text in parallel columns.
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Dusk lingers : haiku of Issa