殉情詩集 (Poems of Love and Death)

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Sato Haruo (1892-1964) was a key figure in Japanese modernism who worked across poetry, fiction, and criticism. This collection of passionate lyric poems — poems of love, longing, and death with an intensity that recalls Heine — was important in establishing Taisho-era Japanese lyric poetry as a serious literary form. In the original Japanese, the poems reveal the distinctive rhythms of modern Japanese verse; for Japanese-speaking groups they offer an entry point into twentieth-century Japanese lyric.