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
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
