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Index
Title Page
About the Authors
List of Illustrations
Foreword
Introduction
Note on the Translation and Text
1: Coming of Age
2: Endless Rains
3: A Gift of Seaweed
4: The Spring of Old
5: Nod Off to Sleep
6: Pearls of Dew
7: The Returning Waves
8: Mount Asama’s Peak
9: Departing for the East
10: The Call of the Wild Goose
11: The Revolving Moon
12: Grasses of the Musashi Plain
13: Stirrups of Musashi
14: Cocooning with Silkworms
15: A Pathway to the Heart
16: Robes of a Heavenly Maiden
17: Fickle Blossoms
18: From White to Red
19: A Raging Gale
20: No Such Thing as Spring
21: Seeds of the Forgetting-Grass
22: A Thousand Nights
23: The Measuring Well
24: The Bow of the Crescent Moon
25: The Sleeves of Morning
26: A Harbour in My Sleeves
27: Frogs in Pairs
28: Cupped Hands
29: The Cherry Blossom Banquet
30: A String of Threaded Gems
31: Sir Clump of Grass
32: A Spool of Love
33: Reed Ditty
34: Tempest
35: A Loosely Tied Knot
36: A Hardy Vine
37: Morning Glory
38: The Meaning of Love
39: The Glow of Fireflies
40: With All His Heart
41: Purple Bonds
42: Treading on My Footprints
43: Where the Cuckoo Sings
44: Undo a Train
45: Fireflies, Please Tell the Wild Geese
46: A Special Friend
47: A Sacred Wand
48: The One Who Waits
49: New Grass of Spring
50: Lovers’ Quarrel
51: Deep Roots
52: Sweet Flags and Pheasants
53: Heart of the Night
54: The Path of Dreams
55: The Things You Said
56: An Inn of Dew
57: The Skeleton Shrimp
58: Demons and Gleanings
59: Crossing the Straits of the Milky Way
60: Mandarin Blossom
61: The Colour of Love
62: Bare Branches
63: Love at a Hundred
64: Becoming a Breeze
65: The Young Love of Narihira
66: The Sea of Life
67: Snow Blossom
68: The Place to Dwell
69: Was It Real, or Just a Dream?
70: Sea-Tangle
71: Traversing the Sacred Fence
72: The Pine of Oyodo
73: Within the Moon
74: Piling up like Rocks
75: ‘See-Weed, See-Shells’
76: The Age of the Gods
77: The Parting of Spring
78: The Heart Has No Colours
79: The Shelter of Bamboo
80: Wisteria Blossoms
81: Sailing into a Garden
82: The Heart of Spring
83: Toiling Through Snow
84: A Son’s Wish
85: My Heart’s the Snow
86: Past Loves
87: Travels in Ashiya
88: The Rounds of the Moon
89: Which God Would They Blame?
90: By Tomorrow …
91: The Last Day of Spring
92: Hidden by Reeds
93: Love Between the Ranks
94: Autumn Leaves and Spring Blossoms
95: The Herd Boy’s Star
96: Boils and Curses
97: Old Age, Don’t Come!
98: Blooms of Devotion
99: A Glimpse or Not
100: Longing-Grass
101: Glorious Wisteria
102: Riding Upon Clouds
103: A Fleeting Dream
104: ‘See-Weed’ and Winks, Not Winkles
105: Mister Dewdrop
106: Dyeing Itself Red
107: The Truth-Revealing Rain
108: Crying Frogs
109: First Mourned
110: Bind Me with a Spell
111: Coming Undone
112: Drifting Smoke
113: The Shortest Time
114: The Crane’s Lament
115: Burned by Live Coals
116: Eaves on Waves
117: The Shrine of the Little Pine
118: Creeping Vine
119: Keepsake Enemies
120: Festival of Pots
121: Plum-Blossom Bonnet
122: Waters of Promise
123: Becoming a Quail
124: Not a Soul …
125: This Day
Commentary
Appendix 1: Glossary of Literary and Social Conventions
Appendix 2: Historical Characters
Appendix 3: Genealogies of the Historical Characters
Appendix 4: Principles of Romanization
Appendix 5: Romanized Transliterations of the Poems
Appendix 6: Maps
Further Reading
Acknowledgements
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Copyright Page
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