A U.S. researcher of Japanese literature has published two books of “waka” poems composed by the emperor and empress of the Meiji Era (1868-1912) with assistance from his poet wife. It was ...
Born during the Meiji Era (1868-1912), Nagase lived in big ... long,” starts one of her poems. It goes on, “With the money I earned writing poems/ I bought a threshing machine and a cart ...