Celebrate the Tanka Society of America's twentieth anniversary with tanka by 175 poets in seven themed sections: "The Earth Is Alive" (nature), "This Slender Thread" (death and dying), "Barefoot to the Sunset" (love), "Letting the Firefly Go" (family), "Umbrella Inside Out" (miscellaneous), "Garden of Dwindling Petals" (coronavirus pandemic), and "Path to Holy Waters" (travel). Edited and introduced by Michael Dylan Welch, TSA founder and president.

Winner of the 1995 Benjamin Franklin Award, this is a landmark anthology of traditional short verse. In haiku and tanka fifteen Japanese women poets reveal universal female themes through the lens of a challenging spiritual and physical Japanese environment.

The Cambridge History of Japanese Literature provides, for the first time, a history of Japanese literature with comprehensive coverage of the premodern and modern eras in a single volume. The book is arranged topically in a series of short, accessible chapters for easy access and reference, giving insight into both canonical texts and many lesser known, popular genres, from centuries-old folk literature to the detective fiction of modern times. The various period introductions provide an overview of recurrent issues that span many decades, if not centuries. The book also places Japanese literature in a wider East Asian tradition of Sinitic writing and provides comprehensive coverage of women's literature as well as new popular literary forms, including manga (comic books). An extensive bibliography of works in English enables readers to continue to explore this rich tradition through translations and secondary reading.