Breeze Through Bamboo

Selected Kanshi of Ema Saiko
Hardback
264 pages
Published: 1998
Publisher: University Presses of California, Columbia and Princeton
ISBN / EAN: 0231110642

Assembled in this book are translations of kanshi poetry - verse written in classical Chinese, but read as Japanese - by Ema Saiko (1787-1861) who distinguished herself as a writer of kanashi at a time when composition of Chinese was the strict province