One Hundred Verses from Old Japan
Author: first_name: Teika no
last_name: Fujiwara
Language: English
Year: 1909

In 12th-13th century Japan there lived a man named Fujiwara no Teika (sometimes called Sadaie), a well-regarded poet in a society that prized poetry. At one point in his life he compiled the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu (often known simply as the Hyakunin Isshu), which means “A Hundred Poems by A Hundred Poets” (literally “A hundred people, one poem [each]”).<br /><br /> This collection of a hundred poems is known to almost all Japanese, and over the years it has been translated by many different people