Fruit, Lamplight and a Grave

Masaoka Shiki (1867-1902) remade haiku and tanka for the modern age, then spent his last years bedridden with spinal tuberculosis, writing more brilliantly than ever. This book gathers fourteen of his shorter prose pieces in a new English translation: comic, tender, observant, and sometimes quietly devastating.

Inside:

Poems appear as verse, and endnotes explain seasonal words, wordplay and period details.