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Though the prose poem came into existence as a principally French literary genre in the nineteenth century, it occupies a place of considerable importance in twentieth-century Japanese poetry. This selection of poems is the first anthology of this genre and, in effect, the first appearance of this kind of poetry in English.

Originally published in 1980.

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  1. Cover
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  1. Title Page, Copyright
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  1. Preface
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  1. Contents
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  1. Introduction
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  1. MIYOSHI TATSUJI
  1. Echo
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  1. The Village
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  1. Spring
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  1. Village
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  1. The Pass
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  1. A Town
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  1. The Garden
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  1. Garden
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  1. Noon
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  1. Memoire
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  1. Enfance Finie
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  1. The Pheasant
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  1. Among the Branches
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  1. ANZAI FUYUE
  1. Midwinter Writing
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  1. The Garden
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  1. Birthday
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  1. Birthday Again
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  1. Call
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  1. Sunflowers Are Already Black Gunpowder
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  1. Dice
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  1. Anniversary of the Marne
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  1. Estuary
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  1. The Thrush
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  1. Barren Fig Tree
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  1. The Path
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  1. TAMURA RYIJICHI
  1. Etching
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  1. The Submerging Temple
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  1. The Golden Illusion
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  1. Autumn
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  1. Voice
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  1. Premonition
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  1. Images
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  1. Emperor
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  1. Winter Music
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  1. YOSHIOKA MINORU
  1. A Comedy
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  1. Confession
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  1. The Island
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  1. Legend
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  1. Winter Painting
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  1. Simple
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  1. Solidity
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  1. Recuperation
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  1. The Lovely Journey
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  1. Yoshioka's "The Island": An Interpretation
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  1. TANIKAWA SHUNTARO
  1. The Sanctity of Trivial Things
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  1. Scissors
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  1. Inaccessibility of the Glass
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  1. Pleasure and Pain of Looking at a Glass
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  1. Persistency of Apple
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  1. Conditions for Growth
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  1. A Personal View of Gray
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  1. Watching Her Play in Water
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  1. Details for the End of the World
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  1. Pseudo-anatomical Self-portrait
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  1. A Proper Sentence for the Open Window
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  1. INOUE YASUSHI
  1. In the Mountains
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  1. Weasel Slash
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  1. A Life
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  1. The Eye
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  1. Love
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  1. A Departure
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  1. June
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  1. The Olive Forest
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  1. The Arctic Ocean
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  1. Dawning
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  1. The River Indus
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  1. The Boy
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  1. River Light
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  1. The Beginning of Autumn
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  1. The Kite
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  1. Green Leaves
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  1. Youth
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  1. One Month, One Day
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  1. Elegy
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  1. The Pool
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  1. The Ancient Capital
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  1. Old Man in a Turban
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  1. The Evening Sun
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  1. A Light Rain in Autumn
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  1. Travel
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  1. Biographies
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  1. Original Titles of the Translated Poems
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  1. Index
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