While the rise of the charmingly simple, brilliantly evocative haiku is often associated with the seventeenth-century Japanese poet Matsuo Basho, the form had already flourished for more than four hundred years before Basho even began to write. These early poems, known as hokku, are identical to [...]

This anthology brings together in convenient form a rich selection of Japanese poetry (more than 1,100 poems) in traditional genres. A collection of translations of Japanese poetry ranging from choka of the early court to twentieth-century waka. Carter includes all the extras: transliterations of th[...]