Takuboku Ishikawa

A Handful of Sand

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On Knowing Oneself Too Well

Selected Poems of Ishikawa Takuboku

At the turn of the twentieth-century, Ishikawa Takuboku took Japan's ancient, highly formal poetic tradition and turned it to the purposes of an impas...

Romaji Diary and Sad Toys

The novella Romaji Diary represents the first instance of a Japanese writer using romaji (roman script) to tell stories in a way that could not be tol...

Romaji Diary and Sad Toys

The novella Romaji Diary represents the first instance of a Japanese writer using Romaji - roman script - to relate stories in non-kana or kanji forma...

A Handful of Sand

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Poems to Eat

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The Boy of the Winds

MIYAZAWA KENJI remains not only Japan's most popular and beloved writer of stories for children and adults but a prescient voice for this century on h...