La semilla y el corazón

Few literatures combine fascination and mystery as well as Japanese. We are attracted by its elegance and exquisiteness at the same time that we feel that we are missing something, that something escapes us. This anthology is an invitation to explore and clarify the heart of his literary legacy: poetry. We offer a journey from its start in the seventh century to the end of the Second World War, a sequence of poems that allow us to reflect the changes in one of the most stable traditions on the planet. Insinuation, delicacy, the cycle of the seasons, ephemeral emotions... the reader will find here all the themes with which Japanese poetry is usually associated, and also its main forms: tanka, haiku, choka...