Reading this book probably won’t help you much with your work or studies—haha.
But as you flip through these Senryu poems, which humorously capture the foolishness and sadness of spoiled sons, husbands desperate to be popular, and awkward samurai, as well as the cunning games played between men and women in the old Yoshiwara pleasure quarters, you can’t help but smile. It’s a charming reminder that, deep down, people have always repeated the same patterns throughout history.
