This volume includes poems translated by Gary Snyder, who was the first to translate a substantial body of Miyazawa's work into English. Hiroaki Sato's own superb translations, many never before published, demonstrate his deep familiarity with Miyazawa's poetry. In addition the book features a foreword by the poet Geoffrey O'Brien and essays by Tanikawa Shuntarō, Yoshimasu Gōzō, and Michael O'Brien.