Description
A new edition of the most widely known and popular collection of Japanese poetry.
The best-loved and most widely read of all Japanese poetry collections, the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu contains 100 short poems on nature, the seasons, travel, and, above all, love. Dating back to the seventh century, these elegant, precisely observed waka poems (the precursor of haiku) express deep emotion through visual images based on a penetrating observation of the natural world. Peter MacMillan’s new translation of his prize-winning original conveys even more effectively the beauty and subtlety of this magical collection.
Translated with an introduction and commentary by Peter MacMillan.
This Is Yarrow 
Counting Backwards 
Then What 
Spiritlands 
Hammers and Hearts of the Gods 
Penguin Book of Japanese Verse 
Thirteen Poems of Revenge (Introduced by Sophie Hannah) 
Immediate Measures (Ghost Measures 2 & 3) 
The Mystical Rose