Japanese Poetry

Japanese Poetry

Utamakura, poetic place names

• Asuka and the Asuka River
  
• Akashi

Ancient Period

• Manyoshu: Seven Famous Poems
  
• Manyoshu: Five Poems
• Manyoshu: "On Passing the Ruined Capital of Omi" by Kakinomoto no Hitomaro

Heian Period

• Kokinshu: Five Poems about "spring greens" 
• Kokinshu: Twelve Poems about Spring and Autumn
• Kokinshu: Poems about Summer
• Kokinshu: Poems about Autumn  
• Waka Poems for the New Year
  
  

Kamakura Period

• Saigyo, Ten Poems
• Fujiwara no Teika, Seven Poems
  
• Shin Kokinshu, Changing into Summer Clothes
  
• Shin Kokinshu, Early Summer Flowers
  

Muromachi Period

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Edo Period

• Ryokan, Eleven Poems
• New Year's Haiku
• Haiku for the New Year 
  

Modern Period

• Shiki: Sickbed Snowfall (4 haiku)
• Yosano Akiko: Ten Tanka from "Tangled Hair"
• Ishikawa Takuboku, Seven Tanka from "A Handful of Sand"
  
• Takamura Kotaro, "Two Under the Trees"
• Santoka, Ten Free-Verse Haiku