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Mutsuo Takahashi Author

Mutsuo Takahashi is one of Japan’s leading living poets. He has published more than three dozen anthologies of poetry and is a prolific essayist, literary historian, and critic.

Hiroaki Sato is a Japanese poet and prolific translator who writes frequently for the Japan Times. 

Burton Watson is an award-winning translator of Chinese and Japanese poetry and literature.