This book is the most comprehensive work in English on premodern Japanese linked verse (renga).
H. Mack Horton is the Catherine and William L. Magistretti Distinguished Professor of Japanese Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. His books include Song in an Age of Discord: The Journal of Sôchô and Poetic Life in Late Medieval Japan (2002); Traversing the Frontier: The Man'yoshu Account of a Japanese Mission to Silla in 736-737 (2012); and The Rhetoric of Death and Discipleship in Premodern Japan: Socho's Death of Sogi and Kikaku's Death of Master Basho (2019).
