Falling flowers of cherries. Thirteen centuries of Japanese poetry

Japanese poetry - graceful, laconic, so unlike the work of Western poets - a unique phenomenon, and the real collection allows the reader to get acquainted with it in all its splendor and fullness. Under one cover, all significant authors that make up the Golden Fund of Japanese and world literature are collected from the early Middle Ages (VII-XVI centuries) up to the Silver Age (the second half of the XIX-the first half of the XX century).

A rich stylistic diversity (The book includes masterpieces in the genres of the tank, Tyoka, Kansi, Hike and many others, including modern poetic forms), widely known masters of the poetic word, gathered together (Basyo, Issa, Saigo, Akutagawa), extensive articles and notes of the famous orientalist and translator Alexandra Dolina, as well as elegant Japanese engravings and paintings of different eras, decorating the book, allow us to consider this publication a wonderful gift for all lovers of Japanese poetry.

Compiled by A. A.