Poetry. Asian Studies. 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. "Ooka Makoto is a distinguished poet. He is also a major critic of poetry, perhaps the finest in Japan today. For this anthology he has searched through the whole range of Japanese poetry. Janine Beichman has been exceptionally successful in conveying not only the sense but the beauty of the poems..."--Donald Keene.