Spring and Asura: Haikus for Miyazawa Kenji Part I

This bilingual haiku collection by this author is a memorial tribute to Miyazawa Kenji ("Kenji" hereafter; August 27, 1896-September 21, 1933), who is one of the most popular poets/writers in Japan. In his short life of 37 years, he wrote a plethora of poems and stories, of which Shinshō sketchi: Haru to shura (The Mental Sketch Modified: Spring and Asura, 1924) and Ginga testudō no yoru (Night on the Galactic Railroad, 1934) are among the best known.
This is Part 1 of a two-part haiku coll...