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Written by court princesses, exiled officials, Zen priests and recluses, these poems, in the five-line form known as Tanka, represent the diversity of Japan's poetic tradition. They have been selected from sources ranging from the classical imperial anthologies of the 8th and 10th centuries to works of the early 20th century.Hamill, Sam is the author of 'Only Companion Japanese Poems of Love and Longing', published 1992 under ISBN 9780877736479 and ISBN 0877736472.
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