Songs in the Garden: Poetry and Gardens in Ancient Japan AUTH-15274817 and readers can hardly fail

and readers can hardly fail to be challenged by the spiritual concerns of the translators

aching and afraid in a stranger\'s gothic home

and taking tools aloft using the Spanish Bowline

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Songs in the Garden: Poetry and Gardens in Ancient Japan AUTH-15274817 and readers can hardly failThe garden as a poem. Not simply a beautiful design to be appreciated by looking, but a living poem that can actually be read. That is the way gardens were thought of in Japan during the Heian period (794 1185). In that ancient society, a detailed understanding of poetry was an essential part of life for people in the literate classes. Poetic anthologies were learned by heart and all manner of communications either included poems or were interwoven