Japanese love poems

Man'yoshu is the oldest anthology in Japan. You can read the short lyrics Tanka poems about love by 8 ancient poets in Japanese and English.

A Japanese poem I have loved forever. You made me think of it now. <3 From Kenneth Rexroth's translations of "100 Poems from the Japanese"

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