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The Pillow Book
Sei Shōnagon
4.02 average rating, · 10.4k ratings
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The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches
Matsuo Bashō
4.01 average rating, · 6.7k ratings
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Japanese Death Poems
Yoel Hoffmann
4.22 average rating, · 3.2k ratings
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The Essential Haiku: Versions of Basho, Buson, and Issa
Robert Hass
4.32 average rating, · 2.2k ratings
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The Poems of Nakahara Chuya
Chūya Nakahara
4.27 average rating, · 2.2k ratings
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The Ink Dark Moon: Love Poems by Ono no Komachi and Izumi Shikibu, Women of the Ancient Court of Japan
Ono no Komachi
4.38 average rating, · 2k ratings
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On Love and Barley: Haiku of Basho
Matsuo Bashō
4.19 average rating, · 2.1k ratings
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The Tale of the Heike
Anonymous
4.05 average rating, · 1.6k ratings
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100 Poems from the Japanese
Kenneth Rexroth
4.21 average rating, · 1.3k ratings
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Basho: The Complete Haiku
Matsuo Bashō
4.44 average rating, · 1.1k ratings
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One Hundred Leaves: A new annotated translation of the Hyakunin Isshu
Fujiwara no Teika
4.13 average rating, · 1.2k ratings
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Narrow Road to the Interior: And Other Writings
Matsuo Bashō
4.24 average rating, · 987 ratings
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Classic Tradition of Haiku
Faubion Bowers
4.03 average rating, · 1k ratings
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Anthology of Japanese Literature: From the Earliest Era to the Mid-Nineteenth Century
Donald Keene
4.04 average rating, · 652 ratings
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River of Stars: Selected Poems
Akiko Yosano
4.21 average rating, · 609 ratings
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Crow With No Mouth: Ikkyu, Fifteenth Century Zen Master
Ikkyu
4.35 average rating, · 575 ratings
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The Haiku Anthology: Haiku And Senryu In English
Cor van den Heuvel
4.16 average rating, · 579 ratings
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The Spring of My Life and Selected Haiku
Kobayashi Issa
4.30 average rating, · 506 ratings
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