Publisher's abstract: The work of Saigyo, who lived in the bloody era of the formation of military feudalism in Japan, is characterized by motifs of grief. P...

Description of an ordinary day for a girl who was lucky enough to be born after the World War, in destroyed catacombs and streets littered with concrete debr...

It was a completely ordinary evening, in a completely ordinary town with a completely ordinary family, or rather, it should have been like that, if not for o...

One of the oldest genres of traditional Japanese poetry, impeccable in form, tanka, is widely represented in this collection: from the Heian era poet Ariwara...