No Moonlight in My Cup provides translations and commentaries for more than two hundred Sinitic poems (kanshi ??) from the Nara and Heian courts (710-1185) together with a detailed introduction to thi
The composition of Chinese poetry (kanshi) in the Japanese court dates to the mid-seventh century. During the Heian age (794–1185), kanshi emerged as one of two preeminent poetic genres employed by ar