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waka history and criticism

Allegories of desire

By Susan Blakeley Klein

Utamakura, allusion, and intertextuality in traditional Japanese poetry

By Edward Kamens

Pictures of the heart

By Joshua S. Mostow

Waka and Things, Waka as Things

By Edward Kamens

Modern Japanese tanka

By Makoto Ueda

Poetry Contest in Six Hundred Rounds

By Thomas E. McAuley

The way of Shikishima

By Roger K. Thomas

Shinkokinshū

By Laurel Rasplica Rodd

Not Seeing Snow : Musō Soseki and Medieval Japanese Zen

By Molly Vallor