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A warm and wonderful collection of Japanese nature haikus show the creatures you might find in a garden one spring day.

A collection of haiku verses which describe the wonders of spring.

A menagerie of observation, philosophy, musing, and storytelling, Shadowings is quirky and charming, not unlike its author, transplanted Westerner Lafcadio Hearn. In this work, Hearn takes us from an ancient Japanese legend of love and spirits to an intimate contemplation on fear to a philosophical study of feminine Japanese names. Applying both his keen aesthetic eye and his uncanny ability to translate feelings as well as words, Hearn awakens the...

Prose and haiku poetry selected from the work of Basho, a 17th century Japanese poet.