From Paris

In November 1911 the poet Yosano Hiroshi sailed from Yokohama for Europe. Six months later his wife, Yosano Akiko, the most celebrated woman poet of modern Japan, left their seven children in Tokyo and crossed Siberia alone by train to join him. From a lodging in Montmartre they watched Paris through the spring and summer of 1912, sent home dispatches for the Tōkyō Asahi Shinbun, and traveled on to London, Brussels, Munich, Vienna and Berlin.

From Paris gathers all sixty-one pieces. Hiroshi writes quick, opinionated sketches of cabarets and studios, airplanes and duels, Rodin at work at Meudon, the poets of the Closerie des Lilas and the first Futurist paintings. Akiko's nineteen chapters include the train across Siberia as her purse ran out, poems on Notre-Dame and the Berlin station, tanka written on the Channel at night, essays on the women of France and England, and the long letter she wrote her husband from the ship that carried her home.

Translated complete and unabridged, directly from the Japanese first edition, with each author's chapters marked, the poems kept as verse, and notes on the people and places the two poets met.