Brocade by Night: 'Kokin Wakashu' and the Court Style in Japanese Classical Poetry

by Helen Craig McCullough

English, Japanese

Genres: Poetry

591 pages, Hardcover

First published October 31, 1985

About the author

Helen Craig McCullough (February 17, 1918 – April 6, 1998) was an American academic, translator, and Japanologist. She is best known for her 1988 translation of The Tale of the Heike.

Reviews

[madhu · Rating 5 out of 5]

dark is the hill road
on sun-darkening mountain,
and thus late at night
someone makes colored leaves shine
at the tip of every branch.

:)