Books By Shotetsu - Author

Robert H. Brower, one of the founders the Study of Japanese literature in the United States, was Professor Emeritus of Japanese Language and Literature at the University of Michigan. His career spanned four decades, during which time he published numerous articles and monographs on traditional Japanese poetry and poetic criticism, as well as the classic study, Japanese Court Poetry (with Earl Miner, 1962).

Steven D. Carter is Professor of Japanese in the Departments of East Asian Languages and Literatures at the University of California, Irvine. His works include Traditional Poetry of Japan (1991), an anthology of translations of Japanese poems; Waiting for the Wind: Thirty-Six Poets of Japan's Late Medieval age (1989); and The Road to Komatsubara: A Classical Reading of the Renga Hyakuin (1987).