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1	Essential Haiku Volume 20 more books like this by Robert Hass (Editor) add to wishlist American readers have been fascinated, since their exposure to Japanese culture late in the nineteenth century, with the brief Japanese poem called the hokku or haiku . The seventeen-syllable form is rooted in a Japanese tradition of close observation of nature, of making poetry from subtle suggestion. Infused by its great practitioners with ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.59! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Haiku more books like this by Reginald Horace Blyth add to wishlist see all copies from $20.00! new only from $99.00! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Little pictures of Japan more books like this by Olive Beaupré Miller (Editor) add to wishlist 1925. From the Foreword: Friends of Moon and Winds-so were the Japanese poets called who wrote the tiny poems that comprise the greater part of this book. Dewdrops of smallest compass are they, yet mirroring in vivid flashes the whole of Japanese life. In few words of primitive, childlike simplicity these old sages sang, for the little hokku poems ... see all copies from $6.50! first editions \| SVS
4	Dumpling Field: Haiku of Issa more books like this by Haiku of Issa, Kobayashi Issa, Lucien Stryk (Translator) add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $9.73! new only from $11.37! \| SVS
5	Ritual Poetry and the Politics of Death in Early Japan more books like this by Gary L Ebersole add to wishlist This examination of death rituals in early Japan finds in the practice of double burial a key to understanding the Taika Era, or the "Era of Great Change" (645-710 C.H.). Drawing on narratives and poems from the earliest Japanese texts -- the Kojiki, a mythology, the Nihonshoki, a historical chronicle, and the Man' yoshu, an anthology of poetry -- ... see all copies from $5.55! new only from $45.58! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	The Sound of Water: Haiku by Basho, Buson, Issa, and Other Poets more books like this by Matsuo Basho, Kaji Aso (Illustrator), Sam Hamill (Translator) add to wishlist Haiku may be the most popular and widely recognizable poetic form in the world. In just three lines a great haiku presents a crystalline moment of image, emotion, and awarenes. Elements of compassion, silence, and a sense of temporality often combine to reveal a quality of mystery. Just as often, haiku may bring a startling insight into the ... see all copies from $5.06! new only from $5.19! \| SVS
7	Intro to Japanese Court Poetry more books like this by Earl Miner, Robert H Brower (Translator) add to wishlist The poetry written by the Japanese imperial court between A.D. 550 and 1350 is regarded as one of the great literatures of the world. This volume introduces readers to that literature, offering at once a condensation, a reorganization, and an extension (to A.D. 1500) of "Japanese Court Poetry" (1901). (Poetry) see all copies from $4.50! new only from $17.79! \| first editions
8	One Hundred Poems from the Japanese more books like this by Kenneth Rexroth (Translator) add to wishlist Now in its 23rd printing Rexroth's famous anthology of classic Japanese poems. The sound of the Japanese texts is reproduced in Romji script and the names of the poets in the calligraphy of Ukai Uchiyama. With a translator's introduction, notes on the individual poets and an extensive bibliography. see all copies from $2.00! new only from $5.50! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Japanese Court Poetry more books like this by Robert H Brower, Earl Miner add to wishlist see all copies from $30.00! first editions
10	Singing Heart: An Anthology of Japanese Poems (1990-"1960) more books like this by Kenkichi Yamamoto, pse, William I Elliot (Translator), Nishihara Katsumasa (Translator) add to wishlist see all copies from $17.47! new only from $17.47!
11	Japanese Haiku: Its Essential Nature, History, and Possibilities in English more books like this by Ken Yasuda add to wishlist The best book on Japanese haiku available for the Westerner. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.94!
12	Ten Thousand Leaves more books like this by Anonymous, Harold Wright (Translator) add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	A Net of Fireflies: Japanese Haiku and Haiku Paintings more books like this by Harold Stewart add to wishlist see all copies from $4.00! new only from $99.00! \| first editions
14 view cover	Shadowings more books like this by Professor Lafcadio Hearn add to wishlist A menagerie of observation, philosophy, musing, and storytelling, Shadowings is quirky and charming, not unlike its author, transplanted Westerner Lafcadio Hearn. In this work, Hearn takes us from an ancient Japanese legend of love and spirits to an intimate contemplation on fear to a philosophical study of feminine Japanese names. Applying both ... see all copies from $4.76! new only from $10.80! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Japanese poetry : the uta more books like this by Arthur Waley (Compiled by) add to wishlist see all copies from $7.23! new only from $14.35!
16 view cover	Ferris Wheel: 101 Modern Contemporary Tanka more books like this add to wishlist see all copies from $52.69! new only from $58.58!
17 view cover	Modern Japanese Tanka: An Anthology more books like this by Professor Makoto Ueda (Editor) add to wishlist Tanka, a clasical Japanese verse form like haiku, has experienced a resurgence of interest among twentieth-century poets and readers. Arguably the central genre of Japanese literature, the 31-syllable lyric made up the great majority of Japanese poetry from the ninth to the nineteenth century and was the inspiration for such poetry as haiku and ... see all copies from $5.79! new only from $32.34! \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Inch by Inch: 45 Haiku by Issa more books like this by Kobayashi Issa, Nanao Sakaki (Translator) add to wishlist Originally published in 1985 in a limited edition, this selection of haiku by Issa, the great nineteenth-century Japanese poet, is translated by Nanao Sakaki, the legendary contemporary Japanese poet. Widely regarded as one of the four haiku masters of Japan, Issa is much loved for his compassion and humorous sense of equality with the natural ... see all copies from $6.34! new only from $9.36! \| SVS
19 view cover	Women Poets of Japan more books like this by Kenneth Rexroth (Translator), Ikuko Atsumi (Photographer) add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.42! \| SVS
20 view cover	Zen Poetry: Let the Spring Breeze Enter more books like this by Lucien Stryk (Translator), Takashi Ikemoto (Translator) add to wishlist This anthology, jointly translated by a Japanese scholar and an American poet, is the largest and most comprehensive collection of its kind to appear in English. Their collaboration has rendered translations both precise and sublime, and their selection, which span 1,500 years, from the early T'ang dynasty to the present day, includes many poems ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.40! \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	A Hundred Verses from Old Japan more books like this by William N Porter add to wishlist A Hundred Verses from Old Japan were originally collected in the thirteenth century. One of the most popular anthologies of Japanese classical poetry, this collection comprises love poems and "picture poems" describing scenes from nature in tanka form, thumbnail sketches compressed within thirty-one syllables. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $12.68! \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Like Underground Water: The Poetry of Mid-Twentieth Century Japan more books like this by Edward Lueders (Translator), Naoshi Koriyama (Translator) add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.62! \| first editions
23	The Ink Dark Moon: Love Poems by Ono No Komachi and Izumi Shikibu more books like this by Ono No Komachi, Jane Hirshfield (Translator), Mariko Aratani (Translator) add to wishlist see all copies from $3.15! new only from $199.27!
24 view cover	Other Side River: Free Verse more books like this by Leza Lowitz (Editor), Miyuki Aoyama (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $2.00! new only from $6.28! \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	Little Songs of the Geisha more books like this by Liza Crihfield Dalby (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.18! \| first editions

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