Just Living

Steven D. Carter is professor of Japanese and chair of the department of East Asian languages and literatures at the University of California at Irvine. He is the author of Unforgotten Dreams, Waiting for the Wind, and The Road to Komatsubara, and editor of Traditional Japanese Poetry.

• Acknowledgments Introduction The Poems From A Frog at the Bottom of a Well: Selections Glossary of Important Names and Places Sources of the Poems Index of First Lines

These translations seem beautifully precise and their number gives us the clearest profile yet of the neglected poet. Japan Times Carter's pristine and graceful translations have guided so many readers through untrammeled territory in Eastern religions. Japanese poet Tonna, for example, wrote in the classical, eliteuta form in the late 13th and early 14th centuries. -- Susan Salter Reynolds Los Angeles Times Book Review Everything about this volume conveys the milieu of the medieval poets simply and sincerely. And for that, its great master was just waiting. -- Linda H. Chance Monumenta Nipponica