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Paul Watsky is a clinical psychologist and the co-translator, with Emiko Miyashita, of Santoka (Tokyo, PIE Books, 2006), a book of translations of Taneda Shoichi's haiku, written under the pen [...]

Spring twittering why shouldn’t it return? spring is back but not you daily I yellow and weaken growing light as willow fluff all season no fish or geese bring news— only two swallows nesting on [...]

The maiden rests the zither upon her knees. I sorrow and fear, preoccupied with farewells. Coaxed by her suave touch, music pellucid like the wind wafts through checkered windows toward a [...]