On May 1st 2019 Japan entered a new official era to mark the new emperor’s ascension to the Chrysanthemum Throne. The name chosen for this era, Reiwa, uses two Chinese characters 令和, which were taken from an ancient Japanese poetry collection called the Man’yōshū. Oddly … [Read more...] about A Myriad Leaves: The Timeless Poems of the Man’yōshū