Like Underground Water : Poetry of Mid-Twentieth Century Japan

Introduction xix Nishiwaki Junzaburo (1894-1982) New Year's Day 3(1) The Sun 4(1) Shepherd of Capri 4(1) Kaneko Mitsuharu (1895-1975) Reed 5(3) Song of a Sad Pearl Diver 8(2) Murano Shiro (1901-1975) Pole Vault 10(1) About Sketching 10(1) Horizontal Bar (I) 11(1) Horizontal Bar (II) 11(2) Saga Nobuyuki (1902-) Fire 13(1) The River of Life 13(1) A Woman Before Eve 14(1) Kusano Shinpei (1903-1988) The Moon 15(1) Mt. Fuji Poem No.III 15(1) Mt. Fuji Poem No. XVII 16(1) Ono Tozaburo (1903-) Eel 17(1) Someone Waiting 18(1) A White Horse 19(1) Yamanoguchi Baku (1903-1963) A Scene on Okinawa 20(1) A Game Nobody Won 20(1) A Funeral 21(1) Makabe Jin (1907-1984) On the Damp Climate of Japan 22(2) A Mountain Pass 24(1) Estuary 24(2) Dobashi Jiju (1909-1993) My Bicycle Bell 26(1) Wrong Words 27(1) The Endearing Sea 28(2) Amano Tadashi (1909-1993) At Midnight 30(1) A Hyphen 30(1) A Myth 31(1) Sugawara Katsumi (1911-1988) Supper 32(1) On the Other Side of Night 32(1) A Dark Evening 33(1) The Last Runner 33(1) Aida Tsunao (1914-1990) Homecoming 34(1) A Legend 34(2) Wild Duck 36(2) Takada Toshiko (1914-1989) The Fish 38(1) The Beach 39(1) Crimson Stone 39(2) Washisu Shigeo (1915-1982) A Poet's Destiny 41(1) Night in Assyria 42(1) The Prayer of Judas Iscariot 43(2) Ishihara Yoshiro (1915-1977) Wheat 45(1) The Accordion and Morning 46(1) River 46(1) Kuroda Saburo (1919-1980) Sleep, Neighbors 47(1) Strangely Fresh 48(1) Three O'Clock on an Autumn Afternoon 48(2) Anzai Hitoshi (1919-1994) The Abandoned Horse 50(1) The New Blade 50(1) Confinement 51(1) Yoshioka Minoru (1919-1990) A Hymn 52(1) In Praise of the Aged 53(1) A Picture of Dry Matrimony 54(1) So Sakon (1919-) Grandma 55(1) Music in Winter 56(1) The Earth 57(1) Nakagiri Masao (1919-1983) Thanatopsis 58(1) A Poem for New Year's Eve 59(1) At Night 60(2) Sekine Hiroshi (1920-1994) The Child and the Birds 62(1) A Serenade 63(1) Moving Out of the Room 63(2) Ishigaki Rin (1920-) Hands 65(1) These Days 66(1) An Island 67(1) Kisaragi Shin (1920-) A Song of the Flying Fish 68(1) The Typhoon 68(1) About Time 69(2) Ayukawa Nobuo (1920-1986) After the Summer 71(1) The Rotation of Non-Desire 72(1) A Room 73(2) Miyoshi Toyoichiro (1920-1992) Shadow I 75(1) The Blue Tavern 75(1) Shadowgraph 76(2) Naka Taro (1922-) The Candle 78(1) Decalcomania II 79(11) Cityscape 90 Kihara Koichi (1922-1979) Where Do You Come From? 81(1) The Knocking at the Door 81(1) Small Bridges 82(1) Kiyooka Takayuki (1922-) The Man Playing the Oboe 83(1) Midsummer 84(1) The Length of One Day 85(1) Nakai Hideo (1922-1993) Music 86(1) The White Dog 86(1) Larme Noire 87(1) Akiya Yutaka (1922-) Fairy Tale of the Mountains 88(1) Bloodshed 89(1) North Country 90(1) Kitamura Taro (1922-1992) Faint Light 91(1) Yokohama 92(1) Birds 93(1) Tamura Ryuichi (1923-) World without Words 94(4) Invisible Tree 98(1) Hoya 99(1) Tanigawa Gan (1923-1995) Merchant 100(1) A Mill-Hand's Diary 100(1) Morning in a Foreign Land 101(2) Shono Kokichi (1924-1991) As It Goes Down 103(1) The Water Dashes 103(1) On the Day of the Typhoon 104(1) Yoshimoto Takaaki (1924-) A Song to be Sung in Summer 105(1) A Song of our Self-Admonition 106(1) My Boyhood 106(2) Yamamoto Taro (1925-1988) My Poetry is Direct 108(3) Dawn 111(2) Kubota Hanya (1926-) Ballad I 113(1) A Voice 114(1) The Mirror 114(2) Yoshino Hiroshi (1926-) For Nanako 116(1) A Rock 117(1) An Honest Question Mark 118(1) Kuroda Kio (1926-1984) Clouds 119(1) Fantasy of a Guerilla 120(1) Hair 121(1) Kanai Choku (1926-) Mud 122(1) By the Riverbank 122(1) Accidentalism 123(2) Ibaragi Noriko (1926-) When I Was Prettiest in My Life 125(1) The Days That Would Glisten Like Diamonds 126(1) An Unfamiliar Town 127(2) Nakamura Minoru (1927-) At Ueno Station 129(1) To See 129(1) Waiting for Dawn 130(1) Takano Kikuo (1927-) In the Distant Sky 131(1) The Top 131(1) Mirror 132(1) The Vines 132(1) Tsujii Takashi (1927-) Quarrel 133(1) Cassowaries 134(1) Desert (from The California Legend) 135(1) Ohno Shin (1928-) Man to be Blotted Out 136(1) Cat 137(1) A Holiday 137(2) Kijima Hajime (1928-) Cattle 139(1) Beyond That 140(1) More Than Anything Else 140(2) Hasegawa Ryusei (1928-) Mushrooms of Summer 142(1) From a Tenement House 142(1) Cabbages at Night 143(2) Fujitomi yasuo (1928-) Mystery 145(1) Today 145(1) For 146(1) Shinkawa Kazue (1929-) The Sole 147(1) A Distant Mirror 148(1) Chess 148(2) Suwa Yu (1929-1992) Green Wind 150(1) Morning in Missouri 151(1) Landscape 152(1) Kawasaki Hiroshi (1930-) Living 153(1) By Some Means or Other 154(1) Remembrance 155(1) Iijima Koichi (1930-) The Way of the Rain 156(2) Imperfect Poetry and Meaningless Poetry 158(1) A Spoon 158(2) Tada Chimako (1930-) Late Summer 160(1) Odyssey, or on Absence 161(2) Like a Leaf that Falls 163(1) Sekiguchi Atsushi (1930-) Song of a Magician 164(1) Song of the Black Panther 164(2) Ways of Poetry 166(1) Shibusawa Takasuke (1930-) Song 167(1) Landscape with a Seashell 167(1) The Blind Lion 168(2) Katagiri Yuzuru (1931-) Childhood 170(1) A Poem to be Continued by the Reader 171(1) A Wind 171(2) Ooka Makoto (1931-) To Live 173(1) Dreams Tap on the Roof Like the Footsteps of Animals 174(1) Like Underground Water 174(2) Shiraishi Kazuko (1931-) Al's Got into the Saxophone 176(1) Nick and Muriel 176(1) Male/Monkey Story 177(3) Yasumizu Toshikazu (1931-) The Bird 180(1) The Fish 180(1) A Story of Verbs 181(1) Irizawa Yasuo (1931-) The Crow 182(1) The Country I Visited 182(1) On Love 183(2) Kokai Eiji (1931-) The Bridge 185(1) Genesis 186(1) Dark Dirge 186(1) Tanikawa Shuntaro (1931-) Mother 187(1) Toba I 187(1) Anonym IV 188(1) 3,060,000,000 People 188(2) Iwata Hiroshi (1932-) Historical Facts 190(1) Entry in My Diary, Morning of March 27 191(1) Peacetime Industry 192(1) Shimaoka Shin (1932-) Philosophy of a Dog 193(1) A Guidepost 194(1) Blowfish 195(2) Shindo Ryoko (1932-) In a Landscape at Sunset 197(1) At the End of Wilderness 198(1) Chorus 198(2) Yoshihara Sachiko (1932-) Low Tide 200(1) Air Raid 201(1) Of Bread 202(1) Kora Rumiko (1932-) Winter 203(1) She 203(1) A Sound of the Sea 204(1) Kawamura Yoichi (1932-) On the Sand Dune 205(1) Midnight Dance 206(1) The Sound of the Wind 207(1) Nakae Toshio (1933-) Owls 208(1) A Song of Love 208(1) The Moon 209(3) Kataoka Fumio (1933-) Chagall 212(1) Night 213(1) The Story of My Hands 213(2) Kasuya Eiichi (1934-) Daffodils 215(1) Record of a Strange Tale I 215(1) Record of a Strange Tale IV 216(1) Miki Taku (1935-) An Ear 217(1) A Family Tree 218(1) In the Evening Sun 218(2) Suzuki Shiroyasu (1935-) Luster on the Walls 220(1) A Room Without Walls 220(1) Telescope 221(1) Tomioka Taeko (1935-) My Life Story 222(2) Just Between Us Two 224(1) Amazawa Taijiro (1936-) City Poem 225(1) A Song of Weeds 225(1) Late Summer for the Tree 226(1) Takahashi Mutsuo (1937-) The Dead Boy 227(1) I Need Nothing But 227(1) A Night for Valery 228(1) Watanabe Takenobu (1938-) Vacation 229(1) A Sudden Noontime 229(1) A Voice, or a Weekend 230(2) Yoshimasu Gozo (1939-) I Will Go Back 232(1) The Plain 233(1) Holding a Phantom Ship of Asia in my Right Hand 234(2) Yoshiyuki Rie (1939-) A Dream 236(1) A Dirge 236(1) Moon in the Room 237(1) Tsuji Yukio (1939-) You Come from the Other Side 238(1) Flowers 239(1) Dinner 239(2) Osada Hiroshi (1939-) Looking for Spring 241(1) About Love 242(2) Sea of Many Islands 244