Heaven and Earth Have Feeling

Doi Bansui makes the natural world speak: clouds travel, flowers grieve, stars offer hope, and an evening bell joins the living with the departed.

Intimate lyrics stand beside ambitious meditations on light, the poet’s vocation, Napoleon, and Zhuge Liang. Japanese landscapes meet Chinese classical history and European literature.

This complete English translation preserves every supplied verse line and stanza gap, including the final “Moon over the Ruined Castle,” the preface, and the author’s notes.