CONTENTS

Preface

PART ONE: CHINESE POEMS

Introduction to the Chinese Poems by J. P. Seaton

Lao Tzu

T’ao Ch’ien

Hsieh Ling-yun

Hui Yung

Wang Fan-chih

Hsuan Chueh

Han Shan

Shih Te

Meng Hao-jan

Wang Ch’ang-ling

Li Po

Wang Wei

Ch’ang Chien

Liu Ch’ang-ch’ing

Tu Fu

Ch’ien Ch’i

Chiao Jan

Wei Ying-wu

Chang Chi

Po Chu-i

Liu Tsung-yuan

Tu Mu

Wu Pen (Chia Tao)

Kuan Hsiu

Anonymous Sung Dynasty Nun

Su Tung-p’o

Hung-chih Cheng-chueh

Yuan Mei

Ching An

Po Ching (Su Man-shu)

PART TWO: JAPANESE POEMS

Introduction to the Japanese Poems by Sam Hamill

The Priest Mansei

The Monk Kengei

Sōjo Henjō

The Monk Sosei

Ki no Tsurayuki

Saigyō

Fujiwara no Ietaka

The Priest Jakuren

Fujiwara no Teika

Asukai Masatsune

Dōgen Kigen

Kōhō Kennichi

Emperor Fushima

Empress Eifuku Mon-in

Musō Soseki

Ikkyū Sōjun

Sōgi

Sōin

Anonymous

Matsuo Bashō

Selections from Narrow Road to the Interior

Selections from Travelogue of Weather-beaten Bones

Selections from The Knapsack Notebook

Selected Haiku by Bashō

Kikaku

Onitsura

Buson

Ryōkan

Chinese-Style Poems

Japanese Poems

Kobayashi Issa

Selections from The Spring of My Life

Selected Haiku by Issa

Notes on the Poets

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