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A Dream of Bric-a-Brac: The Nineteenth Century

Louisa Stuart Costello • Supposed to be Sung by the Wife of a Japanese Who Had Been Taken by the Russians to Their Country, 1825

Alexander Rodger • The Devil’s Visit to the Islands of Japan, 1838

C. H. W. • An Ode to the Japanese, 1860

Walt Whitman • The Errand-Bearers, 1860

Anonymous • Society in Japan, 1867

Horace Russell and William Greene • The Japanese Lovers, ca. 1870

Oliver Wendell Holmes • At the Banquet to the Japanese Embassy, 1872

R. H. Horne • Ode to the Mikado of Japan, 1873

Margaret Veley • A Japanese Fan, 1876

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow • from Kéramos, 1878

W. S. Gilbert • Two Songs from The Mikado, 1885

William Struthers • The Rejected Japanese Lover, 1887

W. E. Henley • Ballade of a Toyokuni Colour Print, 1888

John Hay • A Dream of Bric-a-Brac, 1890

Anonymous • The Japanese Doll, ca. 1890

Louis Belrose, Jr. • A Japanese Sword, 1891

Rudyard Kipling • Buddha at Kamakura, 1892

Edwin Arnold • Fuji-yama, 1892

Edwin Arnold • The Musmee, 1892

Oliver Herford • Japanesque, ca. 1893

Ernest Fenollosa • Sonnet: Fuji at Sunrise, 1893

Mary McNeill Scott (Mary McNeill Fenollosa) • To a Portrait of a Japanese Princess, 1894

Mary Stockton Hunter • A Japanese Sword Song, 1895

Mrs. Merrill E. Gates • Japanese War Song, 1895

Mae St. John Bramhall • The Japanese ‘Good-Day’, 1897

Margaret A. Brooks • Japan, the Youngest Born, 1899

Aldis Dunbar • Japaneseque, 1900

Edgar Fawcett • The Yellow Danger, 1900

Haunted in Old Japan: 1901~1909

Alfred Noyes • Old Japan, 1902

Alfred Noyes • Haunted in Old Japan, 1902

George Barlow • The Anglo-Japanese Treaty Sonnet, 1902

A. C. Benson • Ode to Japan, 1902

Yone Noguchi • Spirits of Fuji Mountain, 1903

Vernon Nott • Japan, 1904

Joaquin Miller • The Little Brown Man, ca. 1904

Joaquin Miller • At Vespers in Tokyo, 1905

H. D. Rawnsley • Voices from the Dust, 1905

George Barlow • The Battle of the Sea of Japan, 1905

H. D. Rawnsley • Launch of the Japanese Battleship ‘Katori’, 1905

H. D. Rawnsley • To the Mikado, Portsmouth, U.S.A., 1905

James Rhoades • Japan and the Treaty of Portsmouth, 1905

Gordon Bottomley • To Yone Noguchi, 1906

Nora Chesson • A Geisha Song, 1906

Arthur Davison Ficke • At Ise, 1907

Arthur Davison Ficke • Muramadzu, 1907

Arthur Davison Ficke • Kôbô Daishi’s Fire, 1907

Arthur Davison Ficke • A Song of East and West, 1908

Joseph I. C. Clarke • The Soul of Nippon, 1908

Philip Henry Dodge • The Voice of Kegan Fall, ca. 1908

Yone Noguchi • Kyoto, 1908

Yone Noguchi • The Japanese Night, 1908

Yone Noguchi • The Heike Singer, 1908

Alfred Noyes • A Japanese Love-Song, 1909

Alfred Noyes • The Two Painters (A Tale of Old Japan), 1909

And the Great Gate Swings: 1910~1919

Marie Stopes • To Japan, 1910

Adelaid Crapsey • Cinquains, 1911-1913

Amy Lowell • A Japanese Wood-Carving, 1911

Amy Lowell • A Coloured Print by Shokei, 1912

Ella Wheeler Wilcox • On Seeing the Daibutsu—At Kamakura, Japan, 1912

Ezra Pound • In a Station of the Metro, 1913

John Gould Fletcher • From the Japanese, 1913

Arthur Davison Ficke • from Chats on Japanese Prints, 1913-1915

Amy Lowell • from Lacquer Prints, 1913-1919

Vachel Lindsay • The Jingo and the Minstrel: An Argument for the
Maintenance of Peace and Goodwill with the Japanese People, 1914

A. J. Russell • The House of Takumi, 1914

Richard Aldington • Penultimate Poetry, 1914

Ezra Pound • from Nishikigi, 1914

Ezra Pound • from Vorticism, 1914

John Masefield • from The Faithful, 1915

Alfred Noyes • A Knight of Old Japan, 1915

Ezra Pound • from Sword-Dance and Spear-Dance, 1916

Ezra Pound • from Kakitsubata, 1916

Arthur Davison Ficke • from Seven Japanese Paintings, 1916-1917

Amy Lowell • from Guns as Keys: And the Great Gate Swings, 1917

Witter Bynner • In the House of Lafcadio Hearn, 1917

Ruth Mason Rice • A Japanese Print, 1918

John Gould Fletcher • from Japanese Prints, 1918

Alfred Noyes • Nippon, 1918

Ella Wheeler Wilcox • Thoughts on Leaving Japan, 1918

W. B. Yeats • from The Dreaming of the Bones, 1919

Lillian M. Miller • A Japanese November, 1919

Marjorie Allen Seiffert • A Japanese Vase Wrought in Metals, 1919

Yone Noguchi • Hokku, 1919

Jun Fujita • Tanka, 1919

Richard Aldington • Living Sepulchres, 1919

Witter Bynner • Through a Gateway in Japan, 1919

What Was Hidden in Twilight Before: 1920~1929

Witter Bynner • In Kamakura, 1920

Stanley Kimmel • From the Book of a Japanese Urchin, 1920

Hilda Conkling • Japanese Picture, 1920

S. Foster Damon • Kiri no Meijiyama, 1920

Ellen Janson • Japanese Night-Song, 1921

Amy Lowell • from Twenty-Four Hokku on a Modern Theme, 1921

Jun Fujita • Japanese Brush-Strokes, 1923

W. B. Yeats • from Meditations in Time of Civil War, 1923

Edmund Blunden • A ‘First Impression’: Tokyo, 1924

Edmund Blunden • The Daimyo’s Pond, 1924

J. Caldwell Johnston • The Praises of Fuji, 1925

William Plomer • Earthquake, 1927

Robinson Jeffers • The Woman’s First Song, from Dear Judas, 1928

William Plomer • Two Hotels, 1929

William Plomer • Autumn Near Tokyo, 1929

The Heart of Standing: 1930~1939

Laurence Binyon • Koya San, 1932

Laurence Binyon • Matsushima, 1932

Laurence Binyon • Miyajima, 1932

Basil Bunting • from Chomei at Toyama, 1932

William Plomer • Captain Maru, 1936

Keith Douglas • Encounter with a God, 1936

W. Dennis Hinde • To a Geisha, 1937

William Empson • Aubade, 1937

William Empson • The Beautiful Train, 1937

William Plomer • Thoughts on the Japanese Invasion of China, 1938

Elsie Yehling • Japanese Briefs, 1938

Edmund Blunden • In the Margin, 1938

Ogden Nash • The Japanese, 1938

W. B. Yeats • Imitated from the Japanese, 1938

W. H. Auden • from In Time of War, 1939

The Thin Shell of Night: 1940~1949

William Empson • China, 1940

Alfred Noyes • Japanese Doves, 1941

Paul Goodman • The Cyclist, 1941

Anonymous • The Fortress of the East, 1942

George Barker • from Pacific Sonnets, 1944

Kenneth Rexroth • from The Phoenix and the Tortoise, 1944

Anonymous: ‘K’ • Jungle Night, 1945

Samuel Lieberman • Tokyo, Winter 1946

Randall Jarrell • The Rising Sun, 1947

Claus Stamm • To Kazuko—1947

Samuel Lieberman • Oh, Mt. Fuji: Poem and Commentary for
GI’s and Other Tourists, ca, 1947

Edmund Blunden • Osaka in Reconstruction, 1948

Edmund Blunden • To the New Japan, 1949

Kenneth Rexroth • Yugao, 1949

Kenneth Rexroth • Hojoki, 1949

The Aesthetic Point: 1950~1959

George Steiner • A Samurai Who Tried to Kill All the Roosters in Japan, 1953

Lewis Turco • Elegy to a Japanese Garden, 1953

D. J. Enright • The Laughing Hyena, after Hokusai, 1953

Edmund Blunden • In Hokkaido: A Letter in Verse, and in the Romantic Manner, 1953

G. S. Fraser • Sakurajima, 1953

Anthony Hecht • Japan, 1954

Philip Murray • Firefly: A Japanese Romance, 1954

D. J. Enright • Purchas His Pilgrimes, 1955

D. J. Enright • Tea Ceremony, 1955

Kenneth Rexroth • from One Hundred Poems from the Japanese, 1955

Gary Snyder • This Tokyo, 1956

Jack Kerouac • Some Western Haikus, 1956-1959

Katherine Seeler • Debt to Japan, ca, 1957

Anthony Thwaite • Japan: Aesthetic Point, 1957

Gary Snyder • A Stone Garden, 1957

Barbara Guest • A New York Poem in Praise of Japanese Fireworks, ca. 1957

Conrad D. Geller • “About Shibuya Station . . .”, ca. 1958

Cid Corman • The Kamogawa, 1959

Cid Corman • The Lesson, 1959

Cid Corman • Kwannon, 1959

Gary Snyder • Tôji, 1959

Gary Snyder • Kyoto: March, 1959

James Kirkup • Sakunami, 1959

The Heart’s Garden: 1960~1969

John Tagliabue • A Noh Actor, 1960

John Tagliabue • Very Still Noh Dancers with the White Masks of Beauty, 1960

Richard Wright • from Haiku: This Other World, 1960

Edmund Blunden • Nearing Yokohama, 1960

D. J. Enright • Kyoto in Autumn, 1960

D. J. Enright • The Noodle-Vendor’s Flute, 1960

D. J. Enright • A Pleasant Walk, 1960

William Plomer • Autumn Near Tokyo, 1960

Louis Zukofsky • (Ryokan’s Scroll), 1961

Edmund Blunden • Japan Beautiful, 1961

Edmund Blunden • Voice of Kyoto, 1962

John Heath Stubbs • On Reading an Anthology of Japanese Poetry, 1962

Larry Eigner • (out of Hitomaro . . ., 1963

Austin Clarke • Japanese Print, 1963

May Swenson • Japanese Breakfast, 1963

James Kirkup • The Teacher of Flower Arrangement, 1963

James Kirkup • No More Hiroshimas, 1963

James Kirkup • Japan Marine: A Poem Sequence, 1964

John Berryman • Dream Song 73: Karesansui, Ryoan-ji, 1964

William Plomer • from Curlew River, 1964

Clayton Eshleman • Seppuku, 1964

Paul Engle • In a Bar Near Shibuya Station, Tokyo, 1964

Lucien Stryk • Hearn in Matsue, 1965

Stuart Friebert • Kite Flying in Japan, 1965

Gary Snyder • Six Years, 1966

Kenneth Rexroth • from The Heart’s Garden The Garden’s Heart, 1967

Gary Snyder • Hitch Haiku, 1967

Harry Guest • Matsushima, 1967

Kenward Elmslie • Japanese City, 1967

Clayton Eshleman • from The House of Ibuki, 1967

Gavin Bantock • Japan, 1968

Ezra Pound • from Canto CX, 1968

James Kirkup • Four Haiku on the Inland Sea, 1968

James Kirkup • Japan Physical, 1968

Lucien Stryk • Zen: The Rocks of Sesshu, 1969

Stephen Sandy • A Short Account of the Japanese, 1969

Preparing the Past: 1970~1979

Harry Guest • December in Kagoshima, 1970

Harry Guest • Two Poems for O-Bon, 1970

Peter Porter • Japanese Jokes, 1970

Gary Snyder • Kyoto Born in Spring Song, 1970

Edgar Austin • kamikaze, 1971

V. H. Adair • Japanese Print, 1971

John Peck • In Front of a Japanese Photograph, 1971

Edith Shiffert • New Year’s Eve, 1971

Philip Whalen • from Scenes of Life at the Capital, 1971

W. S. Merwin • Japanese Figures, 1971

Sandra McPherson • A Feast for Rats: Old Japanese Print, 1973

Lucien Stryk • Awakening: Homage to Hakuin, Zen Master, 1685~1768, 1973

Les Murray • Aqualung Shinto, 1974

Gary Hulbert • A Japanese Comic Book Story, 1974

Gary Hulbert • Rinnoji, 1974

Howard Nemerov • Lightning Storm on Fuji, 1974

Barry Lopez • Buddhist Poem, 1975

Derek Mahon • The Snow Party, 1975

Kenneth Rexroth • On Flower Wreath Hill, 1976

Allen Ginsberg • from Mostly Sitting Haiku, 1976-1977

Elizabeth Spires • Geisha, 1977

Kenneth Rexroth • from The Love Poems of Marichiko, 1978

Harry Guest • Zéami in Exile, 1978

Ulick O’Connor • from Deirdre, 1978

Frank Polite • The Japanese Consulate, 1979

Kenneth White • The Gannet Philosophy, 1979

Gavin Bantock • Patience, 1979

The Ache of Distance: 1980~1989

Linda Pastan • The Japanese Way, 1980

Michael North • Samurai Movie, 1980

Stephen Dobyns • Japanese Girl with Red Table, 1981

Laurence Josephs • Winter as a Japanese Drawing, 1981

Jim Harrison • Dogen’s Dream, 1981

Christopher Reid • Three Sacred Places in Japan, 1981

John Cage • Toyama 1982

Garrett Hongo • Postcards for Bert Myers, 1982

Garrett Hongo • To Matsuo Basho and Kawai Sora in Nirvana, 1982

Garrett Hongo • A Restless Night, 1982

Jack Gilbert • Alone on Christmas Eve in Japan, 1982

John Levy • Kyoto, 1982

Clive Faust • Midnight Bell at Chion-In, 1982

George Evans • Japan, 1983

Goerge Evans • Dancers, 1983

Roger Finch • Cormorant Fishing, 1984

Roger Finch • Matsushima, 1984

Brad Leithauser • In a Japanese Moss Garden, 1985

Linda Pastan • Japanese Lantern, 1985

Mary Jo Salter • Japanese Characters, 1985

Mary Jo Salter • Welcome to Hiroshima, 1985

Mary Jo Salter • Henry Purcell in Japan, 1985

Mary Jo Salter • At the Public Baths, 1985

Mary Jo Salter • Shisendô, 1985

Shirley Kaufman • A Japanese Fan, 1985

D. J. Enright • Refinements, 1985

D. J. Enright • Old Legend, 1985

Jane O. Wayne • Kiyomizu, 1985

Miriam Marty Clark • Kirigami, 1986

Daniel J. Sundahl • Hiroshima Maiden: An Imaginary Translation from the Japanese, 1986

Nanao Sakaki • Ancestor of Japanese, 1986

Paul Muldoon • Sushi, 1987

Maxine Chernoff • from Japan, 1987

James Merrill • from Prose of Departure, 1988

Jane Hirshfield • Ukiyo-e, 1988

Molly Russakoff • The Japanese Desire, 1988

Joan Retallack • Japanese Presentation I & II, 1989

Nanao Sakaki • Red Fuji, 1989

David Mura • The Hibakusha’s Letters (1955), 1989

David Mura • Letters from Poston Relocation Camp (1942-45), 1989

Anthony Thwaite • Kirishitan Monogatari: Three Last Words, 1989

Anthony Thwaite • The Envoys: 1860, 1989

Anthony Thwaite • Of Japan at Ten Hours’ Sight: 1889, 1989

Anthony Thwaite • Remembering Herun-San: 1931, 1989

Lucien Stryk • Translating Zen Poems, 1989

Lost Objects: 1990~1999

Peter Robinson • New Year, 1990

J. D. McClatchy • Medea in Tokyo, 1990

Cid Corman • from Of, 1990

Sam Hamill • Saigyo’s Moon, 1991

Sam Hamill • Salutation, Late Autumn, 1991

George Evans • Uji, 1991

George Evans • Pachinko King, 1991

George Evans • Nara, 1991

Tess Gallagher • Glow, 1992

Tess Gallagher • Picking Bones, 1992

Tess Gallagher • Yes, 1992

Michael Fried • Japan, 1992

Robert Gibb • Japanese, 1992

Nanao Sakaki • Somewhere on the Water Planet, 1992

Peter Robinson • Deep North, 1993

Calvin Trillin • Japanese Slump, 1993

John Ditsky • Japonais, 1993

Jack Gilbert • To See if Something Comes Next, 1994

Jack Gilbert • Ruins and Wabi, 1994

Peter Robinson • After Bansui, 1994

Anthony Thwaite • Festival, 1994

Anthony Thwaite • In Nara Park, 1994

Jayanta Mahapatra • Japan, 1994

Jane Hirshfield • In the Year Eight Hundred, 1994

Carolyn Forché • The Garden Shukkei-en, 1994

Paul Rossiter • Some Cultural Uncertainties, 1995

Sam Hamill • Two Poems for Tanabata Matsuri, 1995

Billy Collins • Japan, 1995

Charles Tomlinson • Zipangu, 1995

Michael Longley • A Gift of Boxes, 1995

Michael Longley • A Grain of Rice, 1995

Judith Berke • Japonaiserie, 1996

Tobias Hill • One Day in Hiroshima, 1996

Tobias Hill • from A Year in Japan, 1996

Tobias Hill • Playing Chess with the Elder Mrs Uchida, 1996

Sinéad Morrissey • Goldfish, 1996

Sinéad Morrissey • Before and After, 1996

Leza Lowitz • Dojo Lessons, 1996

Leza Lowitz • Torn Shoji, 1996

Jerome Rothenberg • At Tsukiji Market Tokyo, 1997

Paul Rossiter • Sashimi and Roses, 1998

Sam Hamill • A Warbler’s Song in the Dusk, 1998

Sam Hamill • Lives of a Poet: Two Songs for Takamura Kotarô, 1998

Paul Muldoon • from Hopewell Haiku, 1998

Paul Muldoon • Long Finish, 1998

Jonathan Greene • from Incidents of Travel in Japan, 1998

Ciaran Carson • The Rising Sun, 1998

Ciaran Carson • Fuji Film, 1998

Ciaran Carson • February Fourteen, 1998

In Spaces Between East and West: 2000~

Michael Longley • The Weather in Japan, 2000

Michael Longley • Birds & Flowers, 2000

Andrew Fitzsimons • from Essays in Idleness, 2001

Joseph Woods • Sailing to Hokkaido, 2001

Joseph Woods • Where the word for beautiful is clean, 2001

Joseph Woods • Triptych, 2001

Richard Caddel • 6 Vessels Encountered in the Dark in Spaces Between East and West, 2001

Peter Robinson • Silence Revisited, 2003

Gabriel Rosenstock • Farrera, 2003

Paul Durcan • Raftery in Tokyo, 2004

Paul Durcan • The Journey Home from Japan, 2004

Eileen Sheehan • claiming it, 2006

Pat Boran • Two Poems, 2007