101 modern Japanese poems

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This anthology features 101 modern Japanese poems by 55 poets, including Shuntaro Tanikawa, Minoru Yoshioka, Taeko Tomioka, Nobuo Ayukawa, Taro Kitamura, Ryuichi Tamura, Hiroshi Yoshino, Noriko Ibaragi, Gozo Yoshimasu and Yoji Arakawa, carefully selected by the poet and literary critic Makoto Ooka to ensure that the chosen poems express each poet's special character. The collection provides an introduction to Japanese poetry from the immediate postwar period to the mid-1990s, and through these works one can sense the movement in poetry that reflected the challenging transitions and dizzying transformations occurring in postwar and contemporary Japan.