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Japanese Poets and Poems

Part of The Everything Anthology of Poetry

(Many of the links here were obtained from the Japanese Literature and Film metanode by sensei -- thanks!)

Hyakunin Isshu (collection by different poets)
Ryojin Hisho (collection by different poets)

The Kokinshu anthology (collection by different poets): Insects Weep; What Can I Point To?

Yosano Akiko: My heart is like the sun; Girl, Twenty; To Kiyomizu; Black Hair; So, Call Me Again; I Have This Delusion

Matsuo Basho: Cicada; Peony; Haiku by basho

Yosha Buson

Kamo no Chomei: The river is ceaseless; Building Houses

Lady Daibu: At Least This Kindness; Brightens; By Force Alone; Flowers; Lady Daibu And Her Lover; Meant For Her; The Promised Time; Sudden Memories; That Morning in the Snow; Wherever I Turn

Dogen: Awake, Seeing the Peach Blossoms; Impermanence; Midnight. No waves,; Over the Mountains of Echizen; Sound

Toyotomi Hideyoshi: Death Poem of Toyotomi Hideyoshi

Lady Ise: My Depths Are Now Shallows; Spring Rains Weave; To The Coming Spring; What's Ancient Enough

Kobayashi Issa: Kobayashi Issa's Cat Poems (collection); Counting mountains; Cries of wild geese; How sweet; This dewdrop world; What a strange thing!

Lady Izumi: For Love of You; I Am Startled Again And Again; I go out of the darkness; The Mirror I Face; My Heart Doesn't Follow My Heart; No Colour Called Love; Will I cease to be

Yoshida Kenko: The Dew of Adashino; Great Abbot Pond-in-the-Hole; The Old Letter; A Rare Book

Ono no Komachi: As certain as color; Blasted by Autumn Winds; Even In Dreams; Flowers Faded; The Gone, Growing in Number; If the Current Were to Call; Is It That Time?; Since I Fell Asleep; Since Then, All I Do; Submit To You?; You Can't See It

Saigyo: A Cricket Cries; Deeper Into The Mountains; Dreams As Dreams; Flimsy As The World; Just How You Feel; The Mind's Dreaming; Over-ripe; The Path Has Vanished; Still Hold The Moon; Sunlight Streams; The Willow's Shade; To Play Hide and Seek; Without Memories; When You Said, "Remember Me"; Why Be Bitter?; Unknown, Unliked

Saito Sanki: After eating whalemeat

Minamoto no Sanetomo: Caught In A Mirror; Foam Drifting; If only the world; Leaves Fall And Sink

Masaoka Shiki

Princess Shikishi: Fragrant Water; Gossip As High; I Sit And Then Rise; In My Grief; Is And Is Not As It Was; The Mirage That Forms; The Moon Dims; My Heart Is Thrown; My Thoughts To Go; Strange In The Dusk; Stream Ceases; That Frost Will Not Fall; This Side of the Clouds

Sei Shonagon: Though you can tell me

Myoe Shonin: I Feel I've Melted; Over My Robes; These Turning Winds

Fujiwara no Shunzei: Even Years Ago; Into Open Sky; Mourning Lady Kaga; That One Emotion; Withered Garden

Yoshida Shoin: Death Poem of Yoshida Shoin

Mibu no Tadamine: On Kasuga plain

Kyogoku Tamekane: Blossoms Left Behind; The Colour Of His Voice; The Moving Storm; Pulled By Moonlight; The Roof Above My Bed; Suddenly Here On The Grass; Thoughts Are Worn Away

Fujiwara no Teika: Frost Forms; Mourning Lady Kaga; Passing Through The Barrier of Our Eyes; Pulled By The Memory; Pulled Through Water; Scatter As You May; Sharper With Frost; Sign of This Floating World; Sound and Colour of Pines

My heart is like the sun	Haiku	Insects Weep	Awake, Seeing the Peach Blossoms
Girl, Twenty	Even In Dreams	The river is ceaseless	I have this delusion
Cicada	For Love of You	At Least This Kindness	Impermanence
Flowers	As certain as color	The Moon Dims	In My Grief
Sudden Memories	That Morning in the Snow	Meant For Her	Peony
Though you can tell me	My Heart Is Thrown	You Can't See It	Since I Fell Asleep