This anthology brings together in convenient form a rich selection of Japanese poetry (more than 1,100 poems) in traditional genres. A collection of translations of Japanese poetry ranging from choka of the early court to twentieth-century waka. Carter includes all the extras: transliterations of the original texts, notes on significant but untranslatable rhetorical devices, information on allusions, and tables that allow the reader to look up the source of the original Japanese text of the 1,157 poems translated.