My page on Japanese poetry

• Two poems of monk Sougi

• Two haikus of Matsuo Basho

• Poem 208 from Manyoushuu

• A poem from Monk Ryokan

• A love poem from Ono no Komachi

• Jisei - Japanese death poems

• A poem of Sami Mansei from Manyoshu

• Anonymous poem from the Kokinshuu

• From the Ise monogatari
• The opening lines of the Heike monogatari
• A poem from the Tale of Genji
• A Chinese poem from Monk Ryokan
• A poem of Li Bai