num_pages: 198
description: Winner of the 1995 Benjamin Franklin Award, this is a landmark anthology of traditional short verse. In haiku and tanka fifteen Japanese women poets reveal universal female themes through the lens of a challenging spiritual and physical Japanese environment.
language: English
title: A Long Rainy Season: Haiku and Tanka
titlecomplete: A Long Rainy Season: Haiku and Tanka (Rock Spring Collection of Japanese Literature)
genres: Poetry, Japanese Literature
ratings_count: 51
publisher: Stone Bridge Press