Japanese Death Poems
Subtitle: Written by Zen Monks and Haiku Poets on the Verge of Death
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
Published: July 1986
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 366
ISBN-13: 9780804815055
Subjects: Translations into English; Japanese Poetry; Poetry; Zen authors; Anthologies (multiple authors); Asian - General; Japanese; Poetry texts & anthologies; Chinese poetry; Death; Haiku; Japan
First sentence: The earliest known examples of Japanese lyric poetry are verses found in the first records of Japanese history, the Kojiki (Record of ancient matters), completed in 712 A.D.