H. Mack Horton is Associate Professor of Classical Japanese Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the translator of The Journal of Socho.

"H. Mack Horton has succeeded admirably in bringing to life not only the rich humanity of Socho, his poetry, and his text, but also the literary world in which he was active . . . .[Song in an Age of Discord contains] rich, multifaceted contextualizations of Socho and his life in a time of turmoil and transition."—Monumenta Nipponica "Ambitious and provocative."—Journal of Japanese Studies "...a fine entry into the cultural world of the elite classes of warring states in Japan."—Journal of Asian History "Professor H. Mack Horton's magisterial study of Saiokuken Socho adds a new perspective to the extensive body of renga scholarship in English published over the past twenty-odd years."—Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies

H. Mack Horton is Associate Professor of Classical Japanese Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the translator of The Journal of Socho.

"H. Mack Horton has succeeded admirably in bringing to life not only the rich humanity of Socho, his poetry, and his text, but also the literary world in which he was active . . . .[Song in an Age of Discord contains] rich, multifaceted contextualizations of Socho and his life in a time of turmoil and transition."—Monumenta Nipponica "Ambitious and provocative."—Journal of Japanese Studies "...a fine entry into the cultural world of the elite classes of warring states in Japan."—Journal of Asian History "Professor H. Mack Horton's magisterial study of Saiokuken Socho adds a new perspective to the extensive body of renga scholarship in English published over the past twenty-odd years."—Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies

H. Mack Horton is Associate Professor of Classical Japanese Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the translator of The Journal of Socho.

"H. Mack Horton has succeeded admirably in bringing to life not only the rich humanity of Socho, his poetry, and his text, but also the literary world in which he was active . . . .[Song in an Age of Discord contains] rich, multifaceted contextualizations of Socho and his life in a time of turmoil and transition."—Monumenta Nipponica "Ambitious and provocative."—Journal of Japanese Studies "...a fine entry into the cultural world of the elite classes of warring states in Japan."—Journal of Asian History "Professor H. Mack Horton's magisterial study of Saiokuken Socho adds a new perspective to the extensive body of renga scholarship in English published over the past twenty-odd years."—Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies