Hiroaki Sato

A labor strike in a Japanese silk factory may not seem like a promising premise for a novel, but Yukio Mishima manages to turn an historical event into a fictional exploration of Japan's old paternalistic system of labor management. The strike

Perhaps the most famous, and certainly the most translated haiku, is Basho's poem "Old pond / Frog jumps in / The sound of water". In this book, Sato has collected some 135 translations, versions, parodies, and re-creations of "pond-frog-sound", from Lafcadio Hearn, Daisetz Suzuki, Donald Keene, Kenneth Rexroth, Edward Seidensticker, Robert Aitken and Allen Ginsberg. The formats range from th...