Light Verse from the Floating World

An Anthology of Premodern Japanese Senryu
Hardback
286 pages
Published: 2000
Publisher: University Presses of California, Columbia and Princeton
ISBN / EAN: 0231115504

Similar in form to the well-known, more serious haiku, the satirical poems known as senryu have received little scholarly attention. This text collects together 400 18th- and 19th-century senryu poems, dividing them into thematic sections.