Category: Poetry (Page 5 of 5)

Divine poetry

In the wonderful preface to Kokinshu (the finest defence of poetry I’ve ever come  across), Ki no Tsurayuki writes as follows:

“Japanese poetry has the human heart as seed and myriads of words as leaves.  It comes into being when … Read the rest

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