Japanese Death Poems
Subtitle: Written by Zen Monks and Haiku Poets on the Verge of Death
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
Published: July 1998
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 366
ISBN-13: 9780804831796
Subjects: Poetry texts & anthologies; Poetry; Anthologies (multiple authors); Asian; Death & Dying
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.