One Hundred Poets, One Poem Each

"The best-loved and most widely read of all Japanese poetry collections, the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu contains 100 short poems on nature, the seasons, travel, and, above all, love. Dating back to the seventh century, these ... waka poems (the precursor of haiku) express deep emotion through visual images based on a penetrating observation of the natural world"--Publisher description.