Between the Floating Mist: Poems of Ryokan
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“Just as Ryokan’s life is inseparable from his poetry, the translation’s clarity of diction is inseparable from the sensitive brushwork on each page. A book to be gazed into again and again.”—Charlotte Mandel, Small Press
What shall remain
as my legacy?
The spring flowers
the cuckoo in summer,
the autumn leaves.
Ryokan (1758–1831) was a poet, master calligrapher, Zen hermit, and is one of the most beloved poets of Japan. Instead of becoming the head of a Zen temple, he preferred the simple and in...






















