Songs of a Hundred Poets. Japanese Anthology "Hyakunin Isshu"

This collection was compiled by Fujivaria, but Takeka in 1235. In medieval Japan with its cult of poetry, the preparation of the poetic collection was considered a creative act of a higher order. It was supposed to become not just a book of good poems, but also a composition with respectable transitions of topics by releasing motifs.
Translator Nikolai Nikolaevich Bakhtin is a poet, bibliographer, literary critic, teacher, theater figure. Nikolai Novich was published under the pseudonym, because, under his last name, the officer was not supposed to be printed. After the October Revolution, Bakhtin became one of the founders of Leningrad Tyuza and until the end of his life was headed by his pedagogical part