The anthology includes works by the greatest poets of the Japanese Silver Age, who worked in the late 19th - first half of the 20th centuries - Masaoka Shiki, Yosano Akiko, Kitahara Hakushu, Takamura Kotaro, Nishiwaki Junzaburo, etc. For the first time, the Russian reader has the opportunity to get acquainted with the entire completeness not only with the rich literary heritage of the masters of the ancient genres of tanka and haiku, but also with the work of the classics of Kindaishi, poetry of non-traditional forms. The book is complemented by extensive introductory articles recreating the panorama of numerous poetic schools and movements of the Silver Age - the period of the highest flowering of Japanese verse.