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.
| notes: | Contents: Ancient songs, Poems from the Man’yoshu, The age of Tanka, The age of Haikai and Kanshi, Interludes, The modern age. |
| subjects: | Women authors |
| genre: | Poetry |
| ISBN: | 9780765617835 9780765617842 |
| OCLC number: | 997372216 70131159 |
| publisher: | M.E. Sharpe; Routledge |
| publication place: | Armonk, NY; London |
| english publication date: | 2007 |
| document type: | Book |
| description: | xliv, 592 p. : ill. ; 6 x 9 in. |
| related: | An East Gate book. |