Translations by D. J. Enright and Professor Takamichi Ninomiya
When Japanese poets began to feel the need to break away from their rigid traditional forms they turned for help to the literature of the West. This programme attempts to sketch the course of modern, or western-style, Japanese poetry from the beginning of the present century. The stress, as D. J. Enright says in his introduction, is on ' poems that are discernibly modern and discernibly Japanese.'
Readers:
Derek Hart and Denis McCarthy