Hiroaki Sato has won prizes for his translation of poetry (PEN American Center, Japan-US Friendship Commission). A paperback edition of his Legends of the Samurai has recently appeared. He is now working on a second collection of samurai tales with their origins. He has been a Japan Times columnist since 2000.
‘What I do not have is Everything: / how is it that I won’t bear this neediness?’
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