Japanese Folk Zen Sayings Book - Haiku, Dodoitsu & Waka Poetry Collection | Mindful Meditation & Spiritual Enlightenment | Perfect for Zen Practitioners, Poetry Lovers & Home Decor

As someone who has been a knowledge seeker for more than 7 decades, and has always had a voracious reading passion on topics from A to Z and from the scientific to the esoteric, finding this beautiful and fantastic 174 page soft cover book, (A Zen Harvest: Japanese folk Zen sayings –Haiku, Dodoitsu and Waka compiled and translated with an introduction by Soiku Shigematsu, forward by Robert Aitken) brought me such joy.I have always loved Japanese poetry (Haiku, Senryu and Tanka) and the philosophy of Zen. This incredible book, which was published in 1988, is one of the best volumes I have ever read on Japanese Zen poetry, and I have read numerous ones over the years. There are 773 short poems in this excellent collection that will give you an example of the beauty and splendor of poems that are designed to give you a Zen feeling when reading them.The poems in this collection are taken from many Japanese poetry sources and through they do not list every poet who may have contributed to this collection; nevertheless, there is an index of first lines of each poem at the end of the book.In my opinion, for those into Japanese poems and Zen this book stands as a classic to be treasured and kept as a reference source under Japanese Zen poetry.Rating: 5 Stars. Joseph J. Truncale (Author: Zen Poetry Moments: Haiku and Senryu for special occasions).