Japanese Poetry

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