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This authoritative history of Japan’s elite warrior class separates fact from myth as it chronicles centuries of samurai combat, culture, and legend...
From Renga to Haiku to English
No other Asian poetic form has so intrigued and beguiled the English-speaking world as the Japanese haiku. Even before World War I such imagist poets ...
A Biography of Yukio Mishima
Traces the life of the Japanese author who went from sickly youth to dedicated student of the martial arts, looking at his family life, the wartime ye...
Everything you want to know about haiku written by one of the foremost experts in the field and the “finest translator of contemporary Japanese poet...
A Tale of Vengeance & Death in Haiku and Letters
A remarkable and true tale of loyalty, vengeance, and ritual suicide. . . . In the spring of 1701, the regional lord Asano Naganori wounded his superv...
Views across America and Japan
Prolific, award-winning translator of classical and modern Japanese poetry Hiroaki Sato recorded his thoughts on American society in mainly two column...
An Anthology
Throughout history, Japanese women have excelled in poetry - from the folk songs of the Kojiki (Record of Ancient Matters) compiled in 712 and the cou...
Perhaps the most famous of all haiku is Basho's poem: "Old pond/Frog jumps in/The sound of water." It is the most frequently translated haiku. Sato ha...