Sword and blossom poems from the Japanese
By: done into English verse by Shotaro Kimura & Charlotte M.A. Peake ; illustrated by Japanese artists.
Contributors: Kimura, Shōtarō.; Peake, Charlotte M. A.
Publisher: T. Hasegawa
Published: 1908
Place of publication: Tokyo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 33
Subjects: Japanese poetry -- Translations into English; Chinese poetry -- Japan -- Translations into English; War poetry, Japanese -- Translations into English
Other titles: Sword and blossom; Sword & blossom poems
Notes: The date "Meiji 41" appears in characters in the Japanese colophon.
The "Sword songs" are taken from Chinese-style poems by Japanese writers; the "Blossom songs" are taken from tanka in the Kokinshiu ("Anthology of poems new and old").
Source: Gift of Charles G. LaHood, Jr., Nov. 27, 1989.